KOTA BHARU: Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran (JPS) mengeluarkan amaran banjir di Kelantan dengan kawasan rendah di sekitar Sungai Golok di Rantau Panjang dijangka dinaiki air.

Menurut kenyataan Pusat Ramalan dan Amaran Banjir Negara (PRABN) JPS, susulan amaran hujan berterusan oleh Jabatan Meteorologi (MetMalaysia) serta status aras air sungai diramalkan menaik dan akan melebihi aras bahaya, diramalkan banjir akan berlaku di beberapa lokasi di negeri ini.

Antara lokasi yang terlibat ialah kawasan-kawasan rendah dalam lingkungan lima kilometer (km) di sekitar Sungai Golok di Rantau panjang iaitu Kampung Kubang Rambutan, Kampung Tok Deh, Kampung Tersang, Kampung Baroh Pial, Kampung Kubang Pak Hitam, Kampung Siput, Kampung Kedai Lama, Kampung Lubok Gong, Kampung Kok Pauh dan Kampung Tok Rusa.

Lokasi lain termasuk Kampung Banggol Sepuleh, Kampung Kalor, Kampung Lanchang, Kampung Gual Nibung, Kampung Banggul, Kampung Padang Licin, Kampung Serongga, Kampung Tok Derpah dan Kampung Gual Periok.

Menurut kenyataan itu, banjir yang diramalkan boleh berlaku lebih awal atau lewat dari masa dijangkakan bergantung kepada keadaan hujan yang signifikan di kawasan berkenaan.

Amaran itu dikeluarkan bagi membolehkan semua penduduk terutama di kawasan dijangka banjir lebih berwaspada dan mematuhi arahan pihak berkuasa atau agensi-agensi pengurusan bencana banjir.

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KOTA BHARU: Mangsa banjir di Kelantan membabitkan 44 individu ditempatkan di satu pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS).

Semua mangsa daripada 12 keluarga kini berada di PPS Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Beris Panchor, Bachok.

Menurut portal infobanjir.water.gov.my, Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran (JPS), Sungai Golok di Rantau Panjang melepasi paras amaran. 

Tiga lagi sungai melepasi paras berjaga-jaga iaitu Sungai Melor di Jambatan Melor Bachok, Sungai Semerak di Pasir Puteh dan Sungai Golok di Kuala Jambu, Tumpat.

Semalam, JPS mengeluarkan amaran banjir di Kelantan dengan kawasan rendah di sekitar Sungai Golok di Rantau Panjang dijangka dinaiki air.

Menurut kenyataan Pusat Ramalan dan Amaran Banjir Negara (PRABN) JPS susulan amaran hujan berterusan oleh Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia serta status aras air sungai diramalkan menaik dan akan melebihi aras bahaya, diramalkan banjir akan berlaku di beberapa lokasi di negeri ini.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is developing a system that will alert the public to natural disasters through their mobile phones.

Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said he had instructed MCMC to study methods of sending alerts to mobile phones in a location without using SMS.

He said South Korea and Japan had such a system to alert their people to earthquakes, tsunamis and missing persons.

“We see this as something that can benefit us. We will study it and streamline it with the National Disaster Management Agency.

“I have just liaised with MCMC on this. They are studying it and hope to finalise it within a month,” he said.

Fahmi was speaking after officiating at the Kuala Lumpur Civil Defence Force’s Kampung Siaga 221: Disaster Resilient Community programme in Kampung Pasir Baru here yesterday.

Present was deputy Civil Defence Force (management) chief commissioner Datuk Ismail Mohd Zawawi.

Fahmi said the programme was a collaboration between the Civil Defence Force and the Kampung Pasir Baru Residents’ Association in disaster preparedness.

“I’m pleased because after residents here experienced floods in 2021 and 2022, they came up with plans to prepare for future situations.

“I hope that this programme can bring about awareness on the need to prepare for disasters,” he said.

A woman suffering from gout had to stand in floodwater for six hours before being rescued by the Kelantan Civil Defence Force (APM).

Mazlina Mohamed, 45, said the floodwater at her home rose to 1m at 7am and remained at that level until she was rescued at 3pm and taken to a flood shelter at SM Beris Panchor here.

“I had to stand in the water and endure the pain as my family and I had just moved into this rented house two months ago and we still do not have much furniture.

“This is our first experience evacuating to a flood shelter. We rented the house despite knowing the area is flood-prone because ... the rent is affordable at RM300 a month,” she said.

Mazlina, her husband Mohd Riduan Harun, 45, and daughter Nur Aliya Maisarah Mohd Riduan, 19, moved to the shelter after being instructed by the authorities.

Mazlina, who has been suffering from gout for the past two years and whose condition worsened over the past week, said she was promptly treated by medical staff at the shelter.

Yasmin Syafiqah Anuar, 29, recalled being unable to sleep the night before as irrigation canals and padi fields near her home began overflowing.

“I moved to Kampung Budi four months ago and didn’t know it was flood-prone.

“I started packing and moving items to higher ground.

“By 8am, with water levels rising to nearly 1m, we were instructed by the authorities to evacuate.”

Yasmin said she and her husband had chosen to live in the area because of its proximity to her husband’s workplace in Kota Baru.