Medical Needs Shelter Ribbon Cutting in Wiggins

The very first stand-alone medical needs shelter is all ready, just in time for hurricane season.
The Mississippi State Department of Health officially opened the shelter by holding a ribbon cutting ceremony today. The $7.7 million facility is on Coy Avenue in Wiggins. Mississippi Emergency Management, FEMA, MEMA officials and members of the community had the opportunity to take a look inside.
MSDH Director of Health Jim Craig tells News 25 the facility is built to serve Mississippians with medical needs that exceed what a standard shelter could provide. “Two hundred mile per hour winds it can withstand. It can withstand penetration, the envelope, the outer edge of this shelter, this particular shelter, you can take a two by four, a fifteen pound two by four and shoot it at 100 miles per hour and it can’t penetrate windows, the size, anything. It’s a very safe shelter.”
The stand-alone shelter will be a place where officials can hold emergency training sessions as well.
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