ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A Central Florida family says they can’t get back home from Jamaica and have been stuck there since Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the island.
Diane McCalla and her Aunt Monica Gray spoke with FOX 35 Orlando from the damaged resort in Montego Bay that has now turned into an emergency shelter. After hearing the Florida Governor announce more than two dozen rescues of Floridians in Jamaica, they’re hoping to get help too.
“Send a plane, send a bus, send everything. We need to get our people home,” said Gray. Her sister has stage 4 breast cancer and needs to get back to Orlando for her chemotherapy treatment. “She’s in a lot of pain. Her medicine has run out for nausea medicine. She’s in severe pain. She could barely get out of bed when she’s hot. She’s exhausted,” explained another family member. “She has her treatment in the next two days.”…