Press Release From JIS About Hurricane Beryl - 2024/07/05:
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is reporting that approximately 970 persons relocated to emergency shelters across Jamaica, consequent on Hurricane Beryl’s passage on Wednesday (July 3).
The agency advises that, as of Thursday (July 4), 162 shelters remain open, while 38 have been closed.
This was disclosed by Acting Director General, ODPEM, Richard Thompson, during an interview with JIS News.
He informed that since the system’s passage and the subsequent improvement in the weather, persons have been gradually leaving the shelters.
“It is difficult for you to get the number of persons that remain now. Yesterday (Wednesday, July 3) there was a report coming back to us in terms of a shelter in Portland Cottage [Clarendon] that had 64 persons that lost the roof. Those persons had to be relocated to another shelter,” Mr. Thompson said
“There was also a situation at the Old Harbour High School [in St. Catherine], where a section of the auditorium that was set up to house people in the shelter, part of that roof went as well. So they had to relocate persons to another section of the school,” he said.
Mr. Thompson also noted that areas of Papine, St. Andrew, experienced damage because of the hurricane.
“There were two incidents in the community of Land Lease. One with a house that had three occupants where a tree collapsed on that house. They called for assistance from the [Jamaica] Fire Brigade and the community rendered the assistance before the Brigade had gotten there. While they were there, another tree fell into a house with nine persons and the Brigade did their rescue operation there as well,” he said.
Mr. Thompson told JIS News that the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston also sustained damage, noting that “there are sections of the… hospital where one of the wards lost its roof.”
Additionally, he said there have been reports of downed power lines blocking major and minor roads, as well as coastal flooding as a result of the storm surge on the north and south coasts.
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