WPTV

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As Jamaica endures the devastating impact of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, a Palm Beach County based nonprofit is already taking action to provide relief.

Free Spirit Outreach is mobilizing teams and supplies to assist communities in Jamaica once the storm passes.

“We have teams on the ground, big teams on the ground that’s ready to go,” said Lincoln Lewis, president of Free Spirit Outreach. “They’re protecting their families first and then they will be ready to go the moment it is safe to do so.”

For Lewis, the storm’s potential devastation is personal. He lived through Jamaica’s last major hurricane, Gilbert, in 1988.

“That changed my life and I know what it feels like when the storm passes and nothing is there anymore and everything is destroyed. Your l

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