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Fiji’s emergency services went on full alert from 10pm Friday as the nation awaits the arrival of Cyclone Tomas and winds of up to 250kmph, making it a destructive Category 4 cyclone at landfall.
The National Emergency Operations Centre in Suva is now working 24/7 and in turn activated agencies under its umbrella that include the Fiji Police and Army, Red Cross, Health ministry, Public Works and the Fiji Electricity Authority (FEA).
Emergency teams in all four divisions have also been activated.
FEA workers are on standby and the Public Works ministry has increased manning its 24-hour call centre.
The Marine department is also on alert.
Schools around the country shut down at noon today while members of the security and defense forces have been activated.
On its forecasted path, the cyclone is expected to be over eastern Vanua Levu around midnight Sunday with winds gusting up to 250kmph, making it a very destructive Category 4 cyclone.
Another depression brewing North West of Fiji near Vanuatu weather officials say is making it hard for them to accurately track the path Cyclone Tomas would take.
They say there is every possibility Tomas could move further west once it reaches Fiji, directly threatening Viti Levu in the process.
Sea movements along the southern coasts and around Lau, Lomaiviti and Kadavu are expected to see large swells from tomorrow as the prolonged south-easterly wind flow increases in strength.
It includes the Coral Coast of Viti Levu.
