{"id":94310,"date":"2025-12-24T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94310\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:04:07","slug":"much-needed-relief-supplies-heading-for-jamaica-ahead-of-christmas-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94310\/","title":{"rendered":"Much-needed relief supplies heading for Jamaica ahead of Christmas holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM<\/p>\n<p>Relief supplies bound for Jamaica as recovery from Hurricane Melissa continues <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Four 53-foot tractor trailers, along with a packed airplane hangar at Pompano Beach Airpark, are loaded with life-saving supplies, ready to be delivered to the victims of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s just under 80,000 pounds at the moment and those four containers right now, we still have some more supplies in the hangar,\u201d said Del Rojas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The containers were stocked with help from Project Dynamo, <a href=\"https:\/\/ruffrescuetransport.org\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ruffrescuetransport.org\">Ruff Rescue Transport<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/everythinglifesaving.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/everythinglifesaving.com\/\">the Everything Lifesaving Foundation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWell, there\u2019s still a huge need because it\u2019s still extensively damaged,\u201d said Rojas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Oct. 28 as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. At least 45 people were killed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, volunteers are targeting the hardest hit communities, including Montego Bay and Black River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe hospitals really, that\u2019s a big focus, is getting those rebuilt, getting them the supplies,\u201d said Paul Herrera with Everything Lifesaving. \u201cSo we\u2019re in this for the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More relief is on the way as Jamaica prepares for its first Christmas after the hurricane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe relief has brought together a lot of people,\u201d said Rojas. \u201cAnd it\u2019s very nice to see people work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM Relief supplies bound for Jamaica as recovery from Hurricane Melissa continues POMPANO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-94310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94310","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=94310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}