What does community resilience look like in different contexts/situations? In this section, we provide some examples of different scenarios that have happened, and reflections from people who were involved. These include community resilience activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of a major fire, and how the local resilience officer reassessed what was required for shorter periods of disruption, the impact of a gas outage, and the response to a major storm.

These case studies highlight the different approaches taken to specific incidents:

• Moffat covid-19 case study

• Falkirk fire and major road closure caase study

• Falkirk gas outage case study

• Aberdeenshire Storm Arwen case study

 All these examples relate to different emergencies, but there are some common hints and tips that you should be aware of.

Checklist for Response

• Monitor credible sources of information (Ready Scotland, SEPA, Local Authority, Police Scotland, MET office, etc.)

• First - keep yourselves safe!

• Check with your local resilience teams what it would be useful for you as a community to do – remember one of the most useful things might be to keep out of the way and allow the emergency services to do their jobs!

• Having checked with your local resilience teams develop your own response and establish regular communication with all other local responders

• Support your volunteers to do their bit

• Stand down your response at an appropriate time (in consultation with your local resilience teams)

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