Brisbane flood review labels event 'worst-case scenario', emergency alert system to be upgraded
Brisbane's emergency alert systems will be improved and its planning laws scrutinised as part of widespread measures recommended in a review of February's flood disaster. Key points: Mayor Adrian Schrinner says there were "unreasonable delays in information getting out" Council says 177 suburbs and 20,000 homes were affected by flooding Opposition Leader says council "did nothing to warn people" Former Queensland governor and chief justice Paul de Jersey has handed down his report on Brisbane City Council's flood preparations and response. The mobile phone alert system was "taking far too long" to reach the 1.2 million residents in Brisbane during the rain event, Mr Schrinner said, adding only 14 per cent of Brisbane residents are signed up to voluntary alert system. Mr de Jersey said the real focus of the review was making houses and businesses "more resilient to withstand the effects of the flooding". "I think the mud army is a wonderful concept, of course, but in conducting the review, I thought that the spontaneous outpouring of help within neighbourhoods, really in a sense, surpass the requirements for the mud army," Mr de Jersey said.
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