BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The United Cajun Navy is coordinating relief efforts in Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa, with volunteers working from their warehouse near the Baton Rouge airport to send supplies to the devastated Caribbean island.

Incident Commander Josh Gill has been coordinating much of the relief effort on the western side of Jamaica, where schools and churches have been destroyed by the hurricane.

“So the children in America and all over the world — let’s not just say America, children look forward to going to school — spend a third of their day in school. They don’t have any place to go to school. What do they do? Churches are destroyed, no places to worship,” Gill said.

Flooding creates isolated pockets

Additional flooding continues to create isolated areas where p

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