Construction of three fire stations across the island is to be completed during the new financial year.

These are the Montego Bay Fire Station in St. James, the Port Maria Fire Station in St. Mary, and the Yallahs Fire Station in St. Thomas.

A sum of $673.54 million has been allocated under the Jamaica Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project to complete these works and other activities.

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The money, which has been set aside in the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure, will also be used to complete the Port Royal Street Coastal Revetment Project in Kingston and facilitate training on the new Building Codes by institutions such as the HEART/NSTA Trust, Management Institute for National Development (MIND) and the University of Technology (UTech).

In addition, the allotment will go towards completing a three-year Seismology Research Fellowship, as well as completing the National Risk Information Platform (NRIP), and Microzonation Study and Coastal Assessments.

Up to December 2021 under the project, infrastructure works and equipping of the seismic support unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) were completed, civil works on two box culverts in Church Pen were completed, two water trucks were procured and delivered to the Jamaica Fire Brigade and the Ecosystems Assessment Report and drafts of the revised Jamaica Fire Code and Jamaica Building Code were completed.

The project, which seeks to enhance Jamaica’s resilience to disaster and climate risk, is being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), with funding from the Government of Jamaica and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

It commenced in April 2016 and is slated to end in June 2022 following an extension.

A sheriff’s deputy was hurt Monday morning after a suspect, attempting to evade arrest, crashed into an Alpine fire apparatus, reports fox5sandiego.com.

Officials say, around 7 a.m. first responders received a call about a man with a medical emergency at the Chevron gas station at 1145 Tavern Rd. in Alpine. When first responders arrived at the scene, they saw sheriff’s officials confronting the 32-year-old driver—who had drug paraphernalia in plain sight, the report says.

Sheriff’s officials then asked the suspect to exit the vehicle, but he accelerated in reverse—with the door open—and hit the fire truck. En route to the collision, the ajar door hit a deputy, who was taken to the hospital for a minor nose abrasion and some shoulder pain, the report says.

The 32-year-old suspect, hailing from National City, was detained without further incident; he’s expected to face charges of DUI, assaulting an officer, and more, the report says.

No other injuries were reported.

Video of the firefighter trapped on the ladder. pic.twitter.com/6v69Q64L9v

— Brian Rittmeyer (@BCRittmeyer) February 21, 2022

A firefighter got his leg trapped in a ladder battling a fire at a duplex in Tarentum Monday afternoon.

The fire was reported around noon on West 11th Avenue in Tarentum at a duplex. The structure was destroyed by the fire.

One firefighter got his foot or leg trapped in the rungs of a ladder and his fellow firefighters had to extricate him, Trib Live reports.

Update: Firefighter Richard Schuller of the Highland Hose Company was successfully extricated and he gestured with two thumbs up as he came down the ladder and was placed on a stretcher.

House is on West 11th. pic.twitter.com/HnXtUT0dNo

— Brian Rittmeyer (@BCRittmeyer) February 21, 2022

Richard Schuller, the firefighter trapped on an aerial ladder in Tarentum, has been freed. He held two thumbs up as he was taken away on a stretcher.

— Brian Rittmeyer (@BCRittmeyer) February 21, 2022