Police personnel and firefighters are responding to a bomb threat across from the Falmouth Hospital, in Trelawny.

The area across from the hospital is an open area with rocks and the sea.

Head of the Trelawny Police Division, Deputy Superintendent Winston Milton in confirming the threat said the police are monitoring the situation.

Meantime, Public Relations Officer at the Jamaica Fire Brigade, Emelio Ebanks said a number of firefighters have been deployed to the site.