{"id":22474,"date":"2025-10-27T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22474\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:55:08","slug":"volunteers-in-doral-prepare-disaster-relief-supplies-for-jamaica-ahead-of-hurricane-melissas-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22474\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers in Doral prepare disaster relief supplies for Jamaica ahead of Hurricane Melissa\u2019s hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DORAL, Fla.  \u2014 Adrian Lee is among the volunteers with connections to Jamaica who were hard at work at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalempowermentmission.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.globalempowermentmission.org\/\">Global Empowerment Mission<\/a>\u2019s headquarters on Monday in Doral ahead of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa\u2019s hit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lee was in the nonprofit organization\u2019s warehouse at 1850 NW 84 Ave. The volunteers were helping to pack and load boxes with non-perishable food and other donations destined for Jamaica after the storm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI have a lot of family in Jamaica, so prayers go out to them,\u201d Lee said, adding that he wants to make sure that everyone has food and shelter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Billy Richardson, the director at the GEM warehouse, said they are working as fast as they can to get disaster relief packed and ready to go, so it can be delivered for distribution to a GEM team that is on standby in Kingston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are at Mother Nature\u2019s mercy right now, so we are waiting to see what happens, and as soon as it does happen, we are going to do a plane load of about 50,000 pounds, followed by six 40-foot containers,\u201d Richardson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Weather Authority meteorologists forecast Hurricane Melissa will make landfall on Tuesday in Jamaica, where flood-prone areas were under a mandatory evacuation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There is a risk of catastrophic flash flooding and landslides with storm surge of up to 13 feet and about 40 inches of rain in some areas of Jamaica. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities attributed three deaths in Haiti to and one death in the Dominican Republic to Melissa. Haiti remained under a tropical storm warning. Areas of Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands were under a hurricane watch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For more information about how to contribute to the effort, call 1-800-995-7604, e-mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/27\/volunteers-in-doral-prepare-disaster-relief-supplies-for-jamaica-after-hurricane-melissa\/mailto:info@globalempowermentmission.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">info@globalempowermentmission.org<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalempowermentmission.org\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.globalempowermentmission.org\/contact-us\/\">visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DORAL, Fla. \u2014 Adrian Lee is among the volunteers with connections to Jamaica who were hard at work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-22474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}