Navy helicopters transfered St. Thomas hospital patients to the St. Croix hospital on Thursday following Hurricane Irma’s destruction to the St. Thomas-St. John District. Watch above.
The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it was in the process of securing and assessing Superfund sites; compiling data for regulated facilities; granting fuel waivers to help stabilize prices at the pump and ensure emergency vehicles have access to fuel; and, preparing for infrastructure...
Below are some updates on Hurricane Irma relief efforts territory-wide: Thirty-seven patients at the Schneider Regional Medical Center on Thursday were being airlifted to St. Croix and then to Puerto Rico for further care. Thirty-five nurses and doctors have been greeting the transferred patients at the Henry...
ST. THOMAS — Governor Kenneth Mapp confirmed at a late Thursday press conference that so far, four people have been confirmed dead in St. Thomas in the wake of Hurricane Irma, adding that there was a high likelihood that more bodies would be found. “Part of the recovery process involves going...
ST. THOMAS — Governor Kenneth Mapp has suspended on St. Croix the 36-hour curfew initiated Wednesday, telling The Consortium this morning that the island did not sustain much damage as the St. Thomas-St. John District, and that he would be monitoring the situation throughout the day, to determine...
ST. THOMAS — Hurricane Irma, hours after exacting catastrophic damage on St. Martin and Anguilla, made its way to St. Thomas during the late morning time of Wednesday, commencing what would be hours of pounding with lots of rain and hurricane-force winds, leaving many parts of the second largest...
The extremely dangerous core of Category 5 Hurricane Irma will move over portions of the Virgin Islands very soon, pass near or just north of Puerto Rico this afternoon or tonight, pass near or just north of the coast of the Dominican Republic Thursday, and be near the Turks and Caicos and southeastern...
Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, made landfall in the Caribbean at 2:00 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday, with the storm’s eye passing over Barbuda with gusts of up to 155 miles per hour, as it roars forward to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and other...
ST. CROIX — Governor Kenneth Mapp has scheduled a press conference for today at 3:00 p.m., to update the territory on his administration’s preparedness plan as Hurricane Irma continues to gain strength. The storm is now a category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour,...
The National Hurricane Center (N.H.C.), at 11:00 a.m. described Hurricane Irma, which is barreling its way to the Leeward Islands, as “potentially catastrophic,” with winds of 180 miles per hour, placing the hurricane among the strongest to ever develop. The strongest hurricane on record...
