{"id":16166,"date":"2023-01-24T17:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16166"},"modified":"2023-01-24T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:42:01","slug":"floods-422-evacuated-in-johor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16166","title":{"rendered":"Floods: 422 evacuated in Johor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>JOHOR BAHRU, Jan 24<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0A total of 422 victims were evacuated to eight relief temporary relief centres (PPS) in three districts as of 2 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Disaster Management Committee (JPBN) secretariat said eight PPS in Kluang, Kota Tinggi, and Segamat were opened since 11 am after continuous rain since early this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome 105 families are taking shelter in five PPS in Segambat, nine families in two PPS in Kluang, and one PPS in Kota Tinggi,\u201d JPBN said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-1024x630.png\" alt=\"evacuated\" class=\"wp-image-16167\" width=\"468\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-1024x630.png 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-163x100.png 163w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-350x215.png 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-800x492.png 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM.png 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Malaysian Meteorological Department has issued a danger-level continuous&nbsp;heavy rain warning in&nbsp;Kluang, Mersing, Kota Tinggi, Kulai, and Johor Bahru districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said severe weather conditions were expected in Pontian,&nbsp;Segamat, and Batu Pahat districts, while the alert-level warning was issued for Tangkak and Muar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four rivers in Johor recorded dangerous water levels, namely Sungai Muar (river-mouth of Sungai Gemas) at 19.03 metres (m); Sungai Lenik (Ladang Chaah) at 6.18 m, Sungai Segamat (Sungai Segamat Kecil) at 38.11 m, and Sungai Kahang (Kampung Contoh) at 14m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2158629\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHOR BAHRU, Jan 24 &#8212;\u00a0A total of 422 victims were evacuated to eight relief temporary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM.png",1180,726,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-300x185.png",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-768x473.png",640,394,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM-1024x630.png",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM.png",1180,726,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM.png",1180,726,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM.png",1180,726,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM.png",1024,630,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-24-at-5.41.03-PM.png",720,443,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Local<\/a>","tag_info":"Local","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16168,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions\/16168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}