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	Podcast:		Checkpoint
	Episode:		Cyclone Gabrielle Witness warns councils must do more prep for evacuations
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:03:13
	Publish Date:		2025-11-14 03:36:00
	Description:		A witness in the inquest into 13 deaths linked to Cyclone Gabrielle in Hawke's Bay has warned the coroner that more people will be harmed unless local councils set trigger levels for rivers, so everyone knows when an evacuation is needed. The second phase of the coronial inquiry ends today in the Hastings District Court. For three weeks Coroner Erin Woolley has been looking at why hundreds of people's lives were put at risk during the 2023 weather event when they weren't evacuated in time. Hawke's Bay Tairawhiti reporter Alexa Cook has been covering the inquest.
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