FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 21, 2010
Carlsbad, California
Contact: Andrea Stone
Tel: 760-930-9089
Cell: 619-991-3669
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org
Follow CNN IREPORT: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-396996

MISSION TWO: ACCOMPLISHED

RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM DELIVERS RESOURCES, MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND MORE TO GOOD SAMARITAN SCHOOL

8:20 pm January 21st

Via phone, Darryl Hall, Team Leader, “There are a lot of people looking for supplies that are not here yet. We finished the School – giving them Food, Water, Medical Supplies. The School is still hurting. We are hearing lots of gunfire. Military on street corners. Still many bodies in the street and vehicles are being ambushed with roadblocks of bodies. The biggest thing is search & rescue but there are not many people helping with supplies. If we can somehow get the supplies we can get them to those who need it. We need Food, water, medical supplies, flashlights, batteries (power grids are still down). Having assessed things, they can use power crews with selected materials to get things going. Nothing is going to happen until we take care of the power. Doing the best we can with what we have.”

Andrea Stone, Rescue Task Forces Executive Officer says “One of our contacts told me tonight that Haiti is shifting gears. They are now meeting at off-site locations to transfer the supplies because people are watching orphanages, schools and refugee camps. Our team is traveling with two active duty military members. They will do whatever it takes to get the supplies in the hands and hearts of those in need.”

These are desperate requests for help – These are real. They need more – a lot more.

We have the WILL we just need the WAY. Will you be the way – the answer – the difference between life and death?

Please help us help these victims of this catastrophic event.

Haiti desperately needs us right now.

Please keep our team in prayer.

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

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Many organizations are responding to and seeking support for the Haiti disaster. Rescue Task Force’s experience of providing emergency disaster relief “Around the World, Around the Clock” for over 20 years means that victims will receive essential aid quickly.

Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 21, 2010
Carlsbad, California
Contact: Andrea Stone
Tel: 760-930-9089
Cell: 619-991-3669
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org

SAVING LIVES – MISSION ONE: ACCOMPLISHED
RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM DELIVERS LIFE SAVING MEDICINE

Rescue Task Force (RTF) team has delivered urgently needed medicine to the US embassy, Port-au-Prince, for immediate dispersal to medical personnel. Four hundred doses of life saving calcium chloride, used for crush syndrome victims was one of the key medicines delivered. The RTF team was flown yesterday, after their arrival in the Dominican Republic, by military Black Hawk helicopter to the embassy for delivery of the medicine.

RTF got into the country quickly and began immediately assisting people in need by working with Global Reach and the Civil-Military Fusion Centre (www.cimicweb.org) in response to the Haiti earthquake.

The RTF Team has grown to eight members with the addition of two US military personnel. These additional personnel will help create a safe zone in which the RTF team will operate.

Because of the extraordinary efforts in getting these valuable medicines to Haiti, RTF was the only humanitarian allowed to set up a base camp for the night on embassy grounds.

The next mission is critical: Reach the Good Samaritan School compound where an initial 150 children being fed by a member of our family group of charities, World Emergency Relief – UK, has grown to over 2,000 people. They are in desperate need of food and other essential humanitarian supplies.

Via satellite phone, Darryl Hall, Team Leader, just in: “We spent last night in tents on the embassy grounds. We are not staying in structures – too unstable. The sleeping conditions are as expected: Huge mosquitoes and chilly at night. The faces, so many faces with concern and despair on them – it’s hard to explain. The entire city is running out of food. We have yet to find an open market. Long days and short nights. We plan to get supplies to Good Samaritan School and then head to the border. International Faith Mission has asked us to reestablish electricity for their headquarters. They are in need of medical supplies for their mobile medical clinics. We do not rest much – every minute is the difference between life and death. We are needed and welcomed wherever we go. I have never seen so many with pain in their eyes. Will they have food tomorrow? Next week? We are working – working so hard for everyone.”

Andrea Stone, Rescue Task Force’s Executive Officer, related, “In the fire department, a STRIKE FORCE is when one calls units that are the same i.e., a strike force of six ladder trucks would be six ladder trucks responding. A TASK FORCE is when one calls on six different units to respond i.e. one ladder, one engine, one water tanker, etc. Rescue Task Force is just that -rescue by simultaneous but different means of delivery. A Rescue Task Force team is one in which each member brings his own individual strength, expertise, compassion, experience and skill and then, in conjunction with the other team members, is able to bring these assets together to work toward set objectives. Our Rescue Task Force team on the ground in Haiti continues to make us proud.

It’s hard to sleep at night knowing there are many in pain. As they work tireless hours we in Carlsbad (headquarters) are also keeping the supplies and relief moving. We have 16,000 bottles of hand sanitizer on the way and we are working on several more containers of various supplies – depending on what is available for immediate shipping. We ask for your prayers for our team and our staff to stay strong as they continue our relief efforts.”

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Your prayers and donations are needed, now!

It is as simple as that. The response to this tragedy cannot wait. Please help. Your help will alleviate suffering and save lives.

Haiti desperately needs us right now. The Haitian people are in so much pain. 80,000 have already been buried in mass graves. 200,000 is the expected death toll and this number continues to climb. Please help.

Please keep our team in prayer.

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

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Many organizations are responding to and seeking support for the Haiti disaster. Rescue Task Force’s experience of providing emergency disaster relief “Around the World, Around the Clock” for over 20 years means that victims will receive essential aid quickly.

Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities.



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 20, 2010
Carlsbad, California
Contact: Andrea Stone
Tel: 760-930-9089
Cell: 619-991-3669
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org

6.1 EARTHQUAKE HITS HAITI RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM SHAKEN

World Emergency Relief’s Rescue Task Force (RTF) team does not slow down even when the ground below them is shaking.

RTF team is fine after a 6.1 earthquakes shakes the ground under their feet.

Team leader, Darryl Hall, reports, “Team is fine”.  They were prepared for aftershocks and have set up base camp in tents.  They are not staying inside of concrete structures.

With a 6.1 hitting an already unstable Port-au-Prince it is going to mean more tragedy.  Our Rescue Task Force team will have their work cut out for them.

“This is tragic news, this will mean more devastation and more lives need to be saved.  We have the best of the best over there in Haiti.  Darryl and the team are prepared to do whatever it takes to saves lives.  I have full faith in the entire team to bring that strength and compassion from their hearts and turn it into life saving in many ways.” – Andrea Stone Executive Officer

RTF is there “Around the World, Around the Clock”.

== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==

***This event supersedes event AT00398542.

Region: HAITI REGION
Geographic coordinates: 8.428N,  72.875W
Magnitude: 6.1 M
Depth: 9 km
Universal Time (UTC): 20 Jan 2010  11:03:44
Time near the Epicenter: 20 Jan 2010  06:03:44
Local standard time in your area: 20 Jan 2010  03:03:44

Location with respect to nearby cities:
41 km (26 miles) WNW (301 degrees) of Jacmel, Sud-Est, Haiti
49 km (31 miles) WSW (257 degrees) of Carrefour, Ouest, Haiti
59 km (36 miles) WSW (257 degrees) of PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti

National Earthquake Information Center

The Calcium Chloride the team is carrying is even more valuable with new victims of the recent aftershock.  The RTF team has experience, strength, and courage to make a huge difference.

Children on their knees next to their parents – parents that did not survive the quake. Crying, lost and orphaned.

These are children, families, and elderly pleading for our rescue.

Please help us – now more than ever as we face this catastrophic ground shaking tragedy.  Haiti needs us.  The Americans are there.  Haiti lives are in so much pain right now.

Please keep our team in your thoughts and prayers as they face chaos and danger.

Rescue Task Force needs your help. Please donate to help those who really need it!

Online donations: 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

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There are many organizations that are responding to and seeking support for the Haiti disaster. Rescue Task Force’s experience of providing emergency disaster relief “Around the World, Around the Clock” for over 20 years means that victims will receive essential aid quickly.

Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of charities.