KUANTAN: Situasi banjir di Pahang semakin pulih apabila jumlah mangsa yang ditempatkan di pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS) turun mendadak kepada 580 orang daripada 167 keluarga pagi ini berbanding 2,575 orang daripada 859 keluarga petang semalam.
Sekretariat Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Bencana Negeri Pahang memaklumkan hanya lapan PPS masih beroperasi di lima daerah setakat 8 pagi iaitu tiga di Pekan, dua di Bera serta masing-masing satu di Kuantan, Temerloh dan Maran.
Kuantan masih merekodkan jumlah mangsa tertinggi iaitu 259 orang daripada 75 keluarga diikuti Pekan (206 orang daripada 67 keluarga) dan Bera (67 orang daripada 16 keluarga).
"Daerah Maran pula mencatatkan 35 mangsa daripada enam keluarga manakala Temerloh merekodkan 13 mangsa daripada tiga keluarga," menurut kenyataan itu.
Infopublic banjir pula memaklumkan bahawa dua sungai utama melepasi bacaan paras bahaya iaitu Sungai Pahang di Lubuk Paku, Maran yang mencatatkan 19.39 meter manakala Sungai Pahang di Kuala Sungai Chini di Pekan mencatatkan 15.73 meter. – BERNAMA
Mangsa banjir di Pahang berkurang
- Admin UKK
- Berita
KUANTAN – Banjir di negeri ini semakin reda apabila jumlah mangsa yang dipindahkan ke pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS) menurun kepada 4,971 orang berbanding 9,596 mangsa direkodkan semalam.
Pengarah Angkatan Pertahanan Awam Malaysia (APM) Pahang, Che Adam A. Rahman berkata, Kuantan masih merekodkan jumlah tertinggi apabila merekodkan 4,221 mangsa diikuti Pekan seramai 460 mangsa.
“Jerantut merekodkan seramai 86 mangsa, Bera (68), Rompin (42), Temerloh (59) dan Maran seramai 35 mangsa. Kesemua mangsa ditempatkan di 40 PPS di daerah terbabit,” katanya di sini hari ini.
Menurut Che Adam, pada masa ini terdapat lima batang sungai berada pada paras bahaya iaitu Sungai Keratong di Rompin, Sungai Pahang di Bera, Sungai Pahang di Maran, Sungai Luit di Maran dan Sungai Pahang di Pekan.
Katanya, lima sungai pula berada pada paras amaran iaitu Sungai Chereh di Kuantan, Sungai Soi di Kuantan, Sungai Pahang di Temerloh, Sungai Pahang di Kuala Krau dan Sungai Pahang di Maran. – KOSMO! ONLINE
PETALING JAYA – Jabatan Meteorologi (MetMalaysia) mengeluarkan amaran cuaca buruk di empat negeri, petang ini.
MetMalaysia dalam satu hantaran berkata, amaran itu dikeluarkan susulan hujan lebat dan angin kencang yang dijangka berlaku sehingga pukul 9 malam.
“Ribut petir, hujan lebat dan angin kencang dijangka berlaku di Selangor melibatkan Klang, Petaling, Kuala Langat dan Sepang,” kata kenyataan itu, hari ini.
Menurut MetMalaysia, cuaca buruk turut dijangka berlaku di Sarawak melibatkan daerah Kuching, Serian, Samarahan, Sri Aman, Betong (Betong), Sarikei (Julau), Sibu, Mukah (Mukah), Kapit (Song), Bintulu, Miri dan Limbang.
“Sementara itu, cuaca buruk di Sabah dijangka berlaku di Pedalaman (Sipitang, Tenom, Kuala Penyu dan Beaufort), Pantai Barat (Papar) dan Sandakan (Telupid, Kinabatangan, Beluran dan Sandakan),” kata MetMalaysia.
Tambahnya, cuaca buruk turut diramalkan melanda seluruh Labuan. – KOSMO! ONLINE
Civil Defence gears up: Officers on standby nationwide as monsoon threatens second flood wave
- Admin UKK
- Berita
KOTA TINGGI, Dec 21 — Some 3,000 to 5,000 officers and personnel of the Malaysian Civil Defence Force (APM) nationwide are ready to be mobilised in anticipation of a possible second wave of floods following the northeast monsoon.
APM Training Management Division director Colonel (PA) Effendy Ali said operations would also be supported by Civil Defence Auxiliary (CDA) teams, whose membership currently totals around 5,000.
“The CDA are first responders, and if their own areas are unaffected, they will be deployed to assist elsewhere as needed,” he told reporters after launching the Madani Adopted Village Programme at Felda Air Tawar 1 here today.
Effendy added that logistics and equipment are sufficient and ready for deployment. He also urged the public, particularly residents in low-lying areas, to stay alert and make early preparations, including safeguarding themselves, their families and important documents.
Under the Madani programme, APM aims to adopt 200 villages nationwide. At Felda Air Tawar 1, 10 projects have been planned or implemented, including training residents as CDA members, stabilising clinic embankments and widening access roads.
The projects also include upgrading cemetery infrastructure, and providing public facilities such as toilets, fire hydrants and bus and taxi stops.
APM has also conducted Disaster Risk Reduction exercises, removed 20 hazardous trees and cleared 25 homes of vulnerable residents as part of proactive emergency preparedness. — Bernama
In Pahang, flood conditions in Rompin improved, with the number of affected victims reduced to 2,575 people at 33 centres this afternoon. Other areas affected are Kuantan (1,986 people), Pekan (430), Bera (69), Temerloh (35), Maran (35) and Jerantut (20).
In Terengganu, the number of flood victims in the Kemaman district dropped to 571 people, all in Bukit Mentok. Two centres were closed after all evacuees were allowed to return home.
