{"id":99706,"date":"2025-10-25T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99706\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:12:08","slug":"gore-neighbours-and-radio-listeners-rally-to-help-amputee-after-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99706\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore neighbours and radio listeners rally to help amputee after storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man\u2019s home didn\u2019t appear to be damaged but Wilson was concerned it could still cause problems for her vulnerable neighbour, so she tried to contact Emergency Management Southland for help.<\/p>\n

\"AA tree came down on a house in Gore during Thursday’s severe winds but the community has worked together to remove it from the property where an elderly amputee lives. <\/p>\n

However, she wasn\u2019t able to get through, putting the failure down to the communication outages that are still affecting parts of the region.<\/p>\n

But the message got through this morning, with Emergency Management Southland forwarding Wilson\u2019s message to Hokonui Breakfast with Chitty host Kirstin Chittock, who put out an SOS to her listeners on air and online.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe received a message from Emergency Management Southland about a local resident \u2026 who needs urgent help after a tree has fallen on his roof,\u201d wrote Chittock on Facebook this morning, including the man\u2019s address in her post. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe homeowner has a disability, and the situation is beyond what neighbours can manage. If you or someone you know has the equipment or ability to safely assist, please get in touch or head along if it\u2019s safe to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HokonuiHokonui Breakfast with Chitty host Kirstin Chittock. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

By 10.35am, Chittock had posted an update.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll sorted, that didn\u2019t even take an hour \u2013 incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson said she\u2019d barely got out of her house to tell her neighbour about the Facebook post when someone was knocking on the man\u2019s door.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a guy there, and I think there\u2019s been another since, so between them they should get it sorted.\u201d<\/p>\n

After assessing the scene they were expected back this afternoon to get the job done, and without payment, Wilson said.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t know who the men were but was grateful for their \u201ccommunity service\u201d.<\/p>\n

And she knew who to go to next time she or a neighbour were in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce [Emergency Management Southland got the message] we were all go \u2013 because they sent it to Chitty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man\u2019s home didn\u2019t appear to be damaged but Wilson was concerned it could still cause problems for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,72974,95,56717,1259,15453,56523,305,5838,33262,10053,30537,9201,3244,111,43,139,69,4965,16237,19328,673,61,15981,102,10119],"class_list":["post-99706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-amputee","tag-and","tag-combined","tag-community","tag-elderly","tag-gore","tag-have","tag-help","tag-hour","tag-house","tag-kindness","tag-listeners","tag-neighbours","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-radio","tag-rally","tag-reach","tag-storm","tag-to","tag-tree","tag-with","tag-within"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}