Probably not public knowledge to those outside Tauranga, about the slip. The site could easily be contained within the camp ground, especially after it moved from an urgent life saving mission to a body recovery⦠but:
- 4 roads have been blocked or partially blocked off
- shops, including 13 hospitality businesses within the cordon and estimated about 200 workers are closed and inaccessible.
- all homes and apartments have been closed to access within the cordon affecting 1000βs of people requiring alternative accomodation
- the main beach has been half closed despite being several hundred meters from the slip
- council reserves eg Mt Drury aren't open and the reserve on the other side of the shops had to shut closing their markets.
There is no info coming out on whatβs happening, there is no H&S reason for everything to be closed, this is a peak long weekend. While itβs a tragedy, it can be contained without making others suffer.
The camp can easily be blocked off and everything done from within there. Again if this was a car crash with 6 dead, it would have been opened up within hours. Obviously a tragedy but this can be contained within the camp.
They are torn between grieving lives lost and stress for their staff and finances.
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