FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, January 25, 2010
Carlsbad, California
CONTACT:
Andrea Stone
Tel: 760-930-9089
Cell: 619-991-3669
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org
RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM – VOLUNTEER WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES ARRIVE
UPDATE FROM HAITI!!!
“The city has become a cemetery – Buildings have collapsed and with heavy concrete and no equipment to move shattered structures hundreds remain under the rubble.”
World Emergency Relief’s Rescue Task Force Team Update:
An additional volunteer, Chris Morrow, arrived Haiti this morning to join the RTF Team bringing with her much needed supplies for distribution. Along with urgently requested medicine, she brought five large duffle bags filled with medical supplies – rubber gloves, face masks, scissors, bandages, sterile gauze, tape, antibiotics, Tylenol (adult and children’s), Pepto Bismol, slings, ace bandages, first-aid kits, Neosporin and more. Morrow also brought flashlights, batteries and glow sticks. RTF’s on-the-ground team leader, Darryl Hall called in a special request – Light Bulbs! Morrow hand carried two dozen light bulbs in addition to Romex wire, 300 feet of extension cord, connectors/adapters and supplies to hook up more electricity.
Much needed and appreciated delivery. That’s what Rescue Task Force does – we respond quickly to immediate needs! Additional supplies are being readied for Haiti including container loads of urgently needed items for survival and temporary but longer-term sustainability of the Haitians.
Also, just in from Rescue Task Force team member, Stanley Vincent, who in “normal life” is a Los Angeles based California Highway Patrolman–Vincent was born in Haiti and lived there for his first 26 years:“I have never seen a city that was bombed – Haiti looks as though an atomic bomb has gone off. The city has become a cemetery – Buildings have collapsed and with heavy concrete and no equipment to move shattered structures hundreds remain under the rubble. Decomposing bodies are beginning to smell as many bodies have not been disposed of yet. People are in survival mode and there is so much despair on the faces. It is very difficult to explain just how hard to see how much pain, destruction and death everywhere. However, I am also amazed and heartened to see so many people – doctors, military, and volunteers, arriving at the airport. So many people have left their comfortable life at home to come and help. I am very grateful to be here and witness this effort. We are making a difference. We are able to restore electricity. There was a man with a severe head injury and they were able to work on him last night – not using flashlights. What was a school building for International Faith Mission, prior to the earthquake, is now a makeshift hospital. The doctors are able to perform minor surgeries and work through the night.”
Today the Rescue Task Force team will distribute the much-needed medical supplies brought in by Morrow. They will travel to outlying areas where clinics are running low and/or out of supplies. They are traveling with hope and life in their cargo.
As they travel, delivering food, water and supplies today – Please keep them in your prayers.
Gary and Benyapa Becks returned safety from their mission to Asia.
More updates as they come in…
Online donations may be made at http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html
or
Send checks to:
Rescue Task Force
2270 Camino Vida Roble
Suite K
Carlsbad, CA 92011
Follow up-to-the-minute details on our team at:
Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce
Twitter.com/MorrowChris
Rescue Task Force Team in Haiti – Daily Journal – CNN iReport
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