{"id":69955,"date":"2016-04-26T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=581c664a8b6bea93c93f5c422088553c"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:01:35","slug":"press-release-tonbridge-flood-wardens-push-to-recruit-more-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69955","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Tonbridge flood wardens push to recruit more volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On the morning of Friday 15 April, volunteer flood wardens in Tonbridge held a training and introduction session for 20 prospective new flood wardens in an effort to increase the number of volunteers available to assist during a flood.<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Agency and Kent County Council were also in attendance and explained how flood wardens and their organisations work together during a flood, the essential service the wardens provide and the benefits to all in increasing the number of available trained flood wardens.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Thompson, Flood Resilience Team Leader in the Environment Agency said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The flood wardens in Tonbridge are a very proactive and committed group of people who provide valuable support and guidance during a flood. The Environment Agency and our partners are hoping to increase numbers of volunteer flood wardens by between 5 and 10 people so that the Tonbridge community can be even better prepared before, during and after a flood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The event, held in the Old Fire Station, was organised and led by the lead flood wardens themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Residents and businesses within Tonbridge can register to receive Flood Warnings for free by calling Floodline on 0345 988 1188 or by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/sign-up-for-flood-warnings\">flood warnings sign-up page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonbridge flood wardens to run an introductory session for prospective new community wardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}