Jordan | The local administration declares the continuation of the medium emergency

Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Local Administration announced the continuation of the medium state of emergency in the Kingdom, which began yesterday due to the developments of the depression.
The Ministry asked emergency rooms in municipalities and joint services councils in various governorates and brigades of the Kingdom to prepare to deal with the weather that affects the Kingdom.

The Secretary-General of the Ministry, Hussein Muhaidat, stressed that the 122 emergency rooms in the municipalities and the joint and main service councils in Amman deal immediately with any emergency events, and inform the main emergency room in Amman of developments in a timely manner through the Ministry's emergency system.

The Ministry directed the municipalities, joint service councils, and directorates of municipal affairs in the various governorates and brigades to ensure the readiness of mechanisms, equipment, emergency teams, and sustaining supplies in emergency cases, in addition to following up the situation in hot areas, valley streams, torrential rains, ferries, and main roads, and dealing with any accidents immediately.

The Ministry called on the municipalities, joint service councils, and directorates of municipal affairs to fully coordinate and cooperate with the administrative governors, operations and other emergency rooms affiliated to the Ministry of Public Works, Interior, Civil Defense, the Jordanian Armed Forces, the Greater Amman Municipality, and others, and to provide the mechanisms, equipment, cadres, and capabilities available to them to help in facing emergency situations and events that accompany Weather conditions, and announcing emergency room phone numbers to citizens in various media and on social networking sites, and repeating that to ensure permanent communication with citizens.

The Ministry of Local Administration stressed on the citizens who live near low areas, valley streams, torrential rains, ferries and hotspots known to be dangerous in the winter season to stay away from these areas in order to preserve their lives and the lives of their families and families.

The Ministry also asked the municipalities to continue to inspect its emergency shelter centers, in anticipation of any emergency cases that its emergency rooms or other emergency rooms will deal with.

The Ministry called on citizens to cooperate fully with the instructions for dealing with the weather situation, and not hesitate to contact the main emergency rooms in the Ministry in Amman at the phone numbers: 064631987, 064622372, to report any emergency situation due to the weather situation that needs intervention, and to commit to sending periodic reports to the emergency system. (Shihab platform) every hour and record incidents as they occur or monitor them up-to-date on the system.