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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Many organizations are responding to and seeking support for the Haiti disaster. Thank you for using RTF as your Ambassadors to hurting lives and hearts. With your help, for over twenty years, Rescue Task Force has been serving “Around the World, Around the Clock.”

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

RTF Home Page

January 22, 2010
Carlsbad, California

MEDIA CONTACT:
Rana Kay
(619) 846-0448
Email: ranak@hardrockhotelsd.com

Andrea Stone
Tel: 760-930-9089
Cell: 619-991-3669
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org

HARD ROCK HOTEL, SAN DIEGO – HELPING RESCUE TASK FORCE

HELPING HAITI EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

While Rescue Task Force team is “boots-on-the-ground” saving lives in Haiti – Hard Rock Hotel San Diego is right beside them to give support. On Friday, January 22, 2010, the Gaslamp establishment is hosting a fundraiser at its 207 nightclub in support of the Rescue Task Force team in Haiti.

Please Come and Dance to Save a Life.

WHO: Hard Rock Hotel San Diego’s 207 Nightclub & Rescue Task Force

WHAT: Fundraiser for Haiti Earthquake Victims – Proceeds to Rescue Task Force

WHEN: Friday, January 22, 2010, 9 pm

WHERE: Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, 207 Nightclub. 207 5th Ave San Diego, CA 92101

VISUALS: San Diegans dancing for a cause as Hard Rock Hotel’s 207 nightlcub donates 100%
of its $20 door charge to Rescue task Force in support of Haiti Earthquake Victims.  Celebrity DJ Eric Cubeechee headlines.

Space is limited.  For more information go to: 207sd.com

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 – CNN iReport: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-396996

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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.

January 18, 2010

RESCUE TASK FORCE PACKING FOR DISASTER RESPONSE TO HAITI DISASTER

Who: Rescue Task Force team packing relief supplies for Haiti, January 18, 2010

What: Team briefing meeting and packing
Team will be available for press interviews

When: January 18, 2010 12:00 PM

Where: Volunteer Team Leader Darryl Hall’s Residence
For address details call Darryl or Andrea
San Diego, CA 92124

Contact: Darryl Hall 858-583-3485 – Cell or Andrea Stone 619-991-3669 – Cell

Visual: Team will be packing, loading and heading for the airport

TEAM DEPARTURE FOR HAITI

Who: Rescue Task Force Disaster Team
San Diego based World Emergency Relief’s Rescue Task Force is sending their volunteer relief team to Haiti

What: Team Departs via American Airlines – available for press interviews

When: January 18, 2010, 2:30 PM

Where: American Airlines terminal – San Diego’s Lindberg Field

Visual: Team will say goodbye to family and friends and will board the plane to provide relief to the Haitian victims of this catastrophic earthquake

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Many have gone four days without food, water, medical treatment and relief. Rescue Task Force is on the way. With over 20 years experience in disaster response RTF Team is preparing to board a plane and head into disaster.

Please help us, help these hungry, thirsty, hurt and terrified people. They need us!  They need you!

Donate Online: http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html

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

Dear friends and Supporters,

WE NEED YOUR HELP; Friday, November 6th at 10:00 AM we will be having a PARTY – a letter folding party….

If you can help “get the mail out”, please stop by for a couple of hours or even a couple of minutes. We will be preparing the Veterans’ Day newsletter for mailing.

If you can help, please let us know – refreshments will be provided. Our apologies for the e-mail to folks out of the area, but we do not yet have our address book sorted geographically.

Hope to see you Friday!

Gary & Andrea

(Gary cell that day 619.887.9230 ~ Andrea cell 619.991.3669)

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Rescue Task Force is part of the World Emergency Relief family

Andrea Stone
Rescue Task Force
Tel:  (760) 930-9089
Cell: (760) 930-9089
andrea@rescuetaskforce.org
www.rescuetaskforce.org