Houses Submerged In Floods, BPBD Calls 105 Pekalongan Residents To Evacuate To Several Points

The Pekalongan City Disaster Management Officer is in the process of evacuating residents affected by the flood. (ANTARA/HO)

PEKALONGAN - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) informed that as of Sunday afternoon as many as 105 residents in a number of villages in Pekalongan City, Central Java, were still displaced due to heavy rains that hit the area.

"Rain with moderate rainfall intensity for 8 hours from Friday to Saturday night resulted in 105 residents still being evacuated," said Head of the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Section of the Pekalongan City Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Dimas Arga Yudha in Pekalongan, Antara, Sunday, 6. February.

According to him, currently around a hundred houses were flooded, so they took refuge in refugee camps prepared by the Pekalongan City Government, namely the Tirto Village Hall, Tirto Village Alhikmah TPQ, and Alkaromah Mosque.

In addition to submerging hundreds of houses, he said, the flood also caused a number of protocol roads to be flooded, such as Jalan Wilis, Urip Sumoharjo, Yudha Bhakti, Karya Bhakti, Jalan Force 66, Sutan Syahrir, Jalan Samanhudi, Pioneers of Independence, Student Army, Kusuma Bangsa, Samudera. Pasai, and Jalan Kurinci.

"Initially the water level along the main road was about 50 centimeters, but this Sunday afternoon the condition has begun to recede," he said.

Dimas said the rain with a fairly high intensity of rainfall resulted in the Bremi River overflowing and overflowing water with a height of 30-40 cm to a number of Tirto areas such as Kampung Baru and Gama Permai Housing.

Floods in Pekalongan City, he said, also submerged residents' housing in the Kelurahan Pasirkratonkramat and Padukuhan Kraton with water levels reaching about 10-40 cm.

"Currently we continue to monitor and patrol preparedness and alert disaster posts, as well as services for flood-affected residents," he said.