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JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI
AGENSI PENGURUSAN BENCANA NEGARA
SHAH ALAM: Kerajaan Selangor akan melaksanakan 11 langkah segera mitigasi banjir membabitkan kawasan kritikal di negeri ini seperti Taman Sri Muda, Meru dan Taman Seri Alam yang kerap dilanda bencana itu.
Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Infrastruktur dan Pertanian negeri Datuk Izham Hashim berkata keputusan itu diperolehi menerusi Mesyuarat Koordinasi Khas yang diadakan semalam membabitkan Ahli Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri, beberapa ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN), pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) berkaitan serta agensi kerajaan seperti Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) Selangor serta Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran (JPS) Selangor.
Beliau berkata dalam mesyuarat itu, JPS telah membentangkan perancangan jangka panjang, sederhana dan langkah-langkah segera bagi menangani isu banjir di tiga kawasan terbabit.
"Bagi kawasan Meru, parit dan longkang tidak bertuan akan disenggara dan pemasangan flap gate di Sungai Binjai membabitkan Rancangan Tebatan Banjir Sungai Kapar Kecil dan Sungai Kapar Besar.
"Pam penggalak di Sungai Binjai juga akan diaktifkan operasi, selain melakukan pengalihan utiliti di dalam Sungai Binjai," katanya menerusi satu kenyataan hari ini.
Bagi Taman Sri Muda, Izham berkata langkah penyelesaian segera yang akan diambil adalah menaik taraf sistem saliran dalaman ke tahap perlindungan yang lebih tinggi sekurang-kurangnya 20 ARI (Average Recurrence Interval) bagi keseluruhan taman itu.
"Pada masa sama, flap gate yang telah rosak di outlet ke Sungai Klang juga akan diganti, Kolam Takungan Taman Sri Muda akan dibesarkan, pengukuhan dan menaik taraf ban tanah di tebing Sungai Klang dan pembinaan ban tanah di tebing Sungai Rasau.
"Langkah lain ialah penguatkuasaan pencerobohan tanah rizab tepi sungai dan pengalihan kabel utiliti atau paip yang menghalang longkang dan menaik taraf sistem automasi pintu kawalan air nombor tiga," katanya.
Izham memaklumkan JPS Selangor turut membentangkan status kemajuan kerja-kerja pembaikan Kolam Takungan Banjir Hillpark, Puncak Alam yang telah pecah kali kedua mengakibatkan banjir di Taman Seri Alam, awal pagi semalam.
Beliau berkata pihak Hillpark Resources melalui perbincangan bersama JPS Selangor dan persatuan penduduk taman berkenaan telah mencadangkan beberapa langkah segera bagi mengatasi masalah kolam takungan pecah yang akan dilaksanakan serta-merta pada minggu ini.
Izham berkata beliau akan memantau sendiri kemajuan serta langkah-langkah jangka panjang dan langkah segera yang dipersetujui dilaksanakan di kawasan terbabit.
KULAI – Seramai 46 anggota bomba mengambil masa kira-kira lima jam untuk memadamkan kebakaran melibatkan tiga buah kilang di Taman Perindustrian Desa Idaman, Senai, petang tadi.
Komander Operasi, Penolong Penguasa Bomba, Muhammad Fauzi Awang berkata, pihaknya menerima panggilan berhubung kejadian itu pada pukul 2.13 petang.
Menurut beliau, pihaknya turut menggerakkan 19 jentera daripada beberapa Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat berhampiran.
“Setibanya di lokasi, didapati sebuah kilang membancuh cat telah musnah dalam kebakaran sehingga memusnahkan 95 peratus struktur kilang.
“Kebakaran turut merebak ke dua buah kilang bersebelahan, selain memusnahkan tujuh buah kenderaan. Kebakaran dipadam menggunakannya teknik ‘medium foam’ dan teknik pancuran enam saliran,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan, di sini hari ini.
Tambah Muhammad Fauzi, tiga mangsa mengalami kecederaan melecur dalam kebakaran tersebut dan telah dibawa ke hospital untuk mendapatkan rawatan. – KOSMO! ONLINE
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - More than a thousand people in Istanbul turned to mosques, schools and other temporary shelters on Thursday after a strong earthquake rattled the Turkish metropolis a day earlier, leaving some 1.5 million buildings at risk, authorities said.
The magnitude 6.2 tremor on Wednesday sent citizens dashing from shaking homes, reviving memories of a historic quake that devastated the country's southeast two years ago - and raising anxieties about the city's lack of preparedness.
It hit a city that has recently seen mass protests over the arrest of its mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu. Scheduled demonstrations still occur twice weekly, with more spontaneous protests cropping up regularly.
There were no deaths from Wednesday's tremor, the biggest in years in Istanbul, which sits just north of a fault line crossing the Marmara Sea. Some 5 million of the city's 16 million residents live in risky homes, data showed in 2023.
While the government said preparing the city for a bigger earthquake was urgent, the opposition party - which runs the municipality and has been frustrated by what it calls inaction by the central government - said its urban transformation plan must finally be adopted.
Imamoglu and some of the city's other disaster-response officials are in prison pending trial on charges brought last month that were broadly criticised as politicised and anti-democratic.
From his cell outside the city, Imamoglu - who is President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and leads him in some polls - said on social media it was his "greatest sadness" not to be able to serve residents at this time.
Dozens of people were hurt leaping from homes on Wednesday, which was the nationwide Children's Day holiday in Turkey, while concrete chunks from some buildings crashed to the ground. Seven buildings had minor damage as a result, authorities said.
"The immediate shelter needs of 101,000 citizens have been effectively and comprehensively met," Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said of people who overnighted in mosques, schools and dormitories. Others slept in tents or vehicles.
Murat Kurum, the urbanization minister, said about a third of the 1.5 million buildings deemed at risk "require urgent transformation - and we have no time to lose."
The municipal government sought to work with Erdogan's government on infrastructure transformation to prepare for earthquakes, he said. "With a sense of national and international mobilization, our Istanbul Earthquake Council proposal must be put into action."
February 2023's 7.8-magnitude earthquake was the deadliest and most destructive in Turkey's modern history, killing more than 55,000 people in the south and in neighbouring Syria, and leaving hundreds of thousands still displaced.
The latest tremor also revived memories of a 1999 earthquake that killed 17,000 near Istanbul, Europe's largest city which also spans across the Bosphorus Strait to Asia.
(Reporting by Jonathan Spicer, Ece Toksabay and Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Aidan Lewis)
NEW YORK: Authorities charged a teenager with aggravated arson, prosecutors said Thursday, after a forest fire scorched 15,000 acres of land in New Jersey, in the northeastern United States, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes.
The fires spreading in Ocean County, the coastal region of New Jersey, south of New York, are only half contained, according to the latest update from firefighters posted on Facebook.
The fire, which has so far destroyed a commercial building, could become the largest in New Jersey for 20 years.
Prosecutors said that on Wednesday they charged a 19-year-old man from the region with aggravated arson following what they allege was an improperly extinguished bonfire.
Since Tuesday, images have shown thick smoke in the sky above the region.
New York health authorities warned Thursday morning that air quality would be degraded, recommending vulnerable communities limit their outdoor activities.
The blaze erupted in the pine forests of New Jersey, one of the largest protected areas on the East Coast. The state was put under drought alert in March. - AFP
SUNGAI BULOH - Dalam kegelapan awal pagi, seorang ayah nekad meredah hujan lebat dan air banjir separas pinggang demi menyelamatkan bayi perempuannya berusia empat bulan susulan banjir kilat di Kampung Kubu Gajah di sini pada Rabu.
Berkongsi detik cemas, Muhammad Yusuf Kamarudin, 31, berkata dia tidak menyangka air naik begitu cepat selepas hujan lebat bemula sejak 3 pagi, hingga tidak sempat menyelamatkan harta benda penting di rumahnya termasuk barangan elektrik.
"Saya hanya fikir keselamatan nyawa anak perempuan saya Nur Alisa Hawa yang baru berusia empat bulan, isteri tiada di rumah kerana bekerja. Ketika itu saya yakin air akan terus naik kerana keadaan masih hujan.
"Jadi, saya dukung anak redah hujan lebat dan banjir separas pinggang ke pondok berdekatan sebelum dibawa ke jalan utama dengan sampan oleh jiran yang kebetulan lalu di situ. Mujur saya sempat keluar sebelum air naik lebih tinggi,” katanya kepada Bernama ketika ditemui semasa membersihkan rumahnya pada Khamis.
Muhammad Yusuf dan keluarga merupakan 27 keluarga yang berlindung di pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS) Dewan MBSA Seri Pagi Paras Jaya sebelum pusat pemindahan berkenaan ditutup lewat petang tadi.
Sementara itu, Saniah Kosnan, 60, pemilik Butik Pengantin Mempelai Bestari berkata dia kerugian hampir RM10,000 selepas butiknya yang terletak di kampung tersebut turut dinaiki air.
"Semalam saya sedar air mula naik dan masuk ke dalam rumah 5 pagi. Saya hanya sempat selamatkan beberapa barangan di rumah namun tidak sempat untuk ke butik saya yang terletak berhampiran dengan rumah kerana air naik terlalu cepat.
"Mujur suami saya mempunyai sampan, jadi kami sekeluarga dapat ke jalan utama untuk selamatkan diri,” katanya.
Saniah berkata antara barangan di butiknya yang rosak termasuk baju pengantin, bunga hiasan, permaidani, kerusi pelamin serta barangan elektrik seperti lampu hiasan.
Pada Rabu, kira-kira 100 keluarga di Kampung Kubu Gajah terjejas banjir susulan hujan lebat berterusan sejak awal pagi dan antara kawasan lain yang terkesan Sungai Buloh, Petaling Jaya dan Subang Jaya. - Bernama