{"id":30000,"date":"2025-11-02T07:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30000\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:41:20","slug":"28-floridians-evacuated-from-jamaica-following-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/30000\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Floridians evacuated from Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Governor Ron DeSantis says 28 Floridians are back home after they were evacuated from Jamaica. It follows the devastating impacts of Hurricane Melissa, which <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/weather\/category-5-hurricane-melissa-to-make-landfall-in-jamaica-10-27-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made landfall<\/a> in the island nation earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis says the Florida Department of Emergency Management began evacuation efforts on Friday, organizing a rescue flight to transport the residents back to Florida. That flight departed Jamaica and landed at the Tampa International Airport on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A Category-5 storm, Melissa was one of the strongest hurricanes to ever form in the Atlantic. It made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica on Tuesday, bringing sustained winds of around 185 miles-per-hour, heavy rain, and storm surge. Homes, businesses, infrastructure, and essential services on the island were completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Governor DeSantis says this marks the third successful evacuation by FDEM under his leadership, including a rescue from Haiti in 2024 and from Israel in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Governor Ron DeSantis says 28 Floridians are back home after they were evacuated from Jamaica.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21833,28,12864,12146,412,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-30000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-evacuation","tag-florida","tag-hurricane-melissa","tag-jamaica","tag-ron-desantis","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30000","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=30000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}