Jordan | Kingdom: The Ministry of Local Administration declares a medium emergency to deal with the current air depression

Weather of Arabia - The Ministry of Local Administration announced a state of medium emergency, starting from Thursday, according to the developments of the depression currently affecting Jordan, which is accompanied by heavy rainfall in the north and center of the Kingdom and some southern regions, according to the bulletin issued by the Meteorological Department.

The depression is also accompanied by dust storms in the southern and eastern regions of the Kingdom, accompanied by strong winds, with low horizontal visibility and sometimes lack thereof in some areas.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Public Works and Housing warned pedestrians of external roads of the possibility of low visibility; Due to dust resulting from wind speed in the eastern and southern regions, and as a result of heavy rains, coinciding with the prevailing weather conditions in most regions of the Kingdom.

In a press release issued by the Information and Communication Unit, the Ministry confirmed the readiness of its cadres, which are equipped with the necessary equipment, to deal with all weather conditions. To process the comments received by it within 24 hours through its 98 teams distributed over the various governorates of the Kingdom.

The Ministry of Local Administration has asked the main emergency rooms in the ministry, municipalities, joint services councils, and municipal affairs directorates in governorates and districts to deal immediately with any emergency events that may accompany the depression.

The Ministry emphasized that the municipalities, joint services councils and municipal affairs directorates in the governorates and districts should follow up on the situation of dangerous and hot areas in them, and ensure that rainwater flows naturally into torrents, valleys and rainwater drainage networks, and inspects and installs signs, billboards, and solid volatile objects, and ensures that Pruning tree branches near the power grid lines, in addition to inspecting and making sure that equipment, mechanisms and vehicles that will be operated during emergency situations are prepared, with the need to provide a sufficient reserve of fuel for all mechanisms.

The ministry asked the municipalities, councils and directorates to inform their main operations room of developments in a timely manner, and to coordinate and cooperate fully with the administrative rulers and other operating rooms of the Ministry of Public Works, Interior, Civil Defense, the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Greater Amman Municipality in their regions and to provide all efforts and capabilities available to them to confront emergency cases and events that May accompany depression and accompanying developments.

According to the statement, the phones of the emergency room of the Ministry of Local Administration are: 06-4631987 direct / 06-4622372 direct / divided: 06-4641393 / ext. (421), and emergency room direct faxes: 064650239/064652269.

The Ministry of Public Works pointed out that all its directorates have been circulated to raise the current emergency plan - the medium emergency plan - according to the assessment of directors of directorates and offices and work requirements.

She stressed that coordination is taking place on a permanent basis with the ministry's partners to work on resolving and addressing all observations on a regular basis. To maintain the sustainability of services provided to citizens, in accordance with the government approach.

She indicated that its field cadres, distributed over all regions of the Kingdom, continuously conduct field inspection tours to ensure the sustainability of services provided to citizens and work to resolve observations immediately.

She called for taking the utmost care and caution and staying away from torrents and valleys, and not hesitating to report any observation through direct communication with the main operations room in the ministry and operating rooms in the governorates, or through the application of the works reporting system on smart phones or through its operations rooms on the following numbers:

• Operations Room Liaison Officer (WhatsApp) (0780377223)
• Ministry Emergency Main Operations Room (065850111)
• Al-Karak Directorate Works Operations Room (0780377231)
• Operations room of Jerash Governorate Works Directorate (0780377187)
• Madaba Works Directorate Operations Room (0780377366)
• Operations room of the Directorate of Works of Ma'an Governorate (0780377338)
• Operations room of the Directorate of Works of Mafraq Governorate (0780377389)
• Operations room of the Directorate of Works of Al-Balqa Governorate (0780377413)
• Operations room of the Directorate of Works of Tafila Governorate (0780377435)
• Operations room of the Ajloun Governorate Works Directorate (0780377324)
• Operations room of the Directorate of Works of Zarqa Governorate (0780377125)
• Operations Room of the Aqaba Governorate Works Directorate (0780377351)
• Operations Room of Irbid Governorate Works Directorate (0780377273)
• Operations room of the Ramtha Brigade Works Directorate (0780377394)
• Operations Room of the Capital Governorate Works Directorate (0780377291)
• Operations room of the Directorate of Works of Petra Province (0780377012)

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