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 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.

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.



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.

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

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
San Diego, California
Contact: Andrea Stone
Tel: 760-930-8001
Cel: 619-991-3669
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org

HAITI HIT BY DISASTROUS 7.0 EARTHQUAKE

Perhaps as many as 500,000 lives lost

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, Haiti was hit by a disastrous 7.0 earthquake. Thousands dead, perhaps as many as 500,000 lives lost. The dead are piling on the decaying streets of the capital city , Port-au-Prince. The country is in chaos, communications are down. Devastation is widespread and relief is desperately needed. Three million people need help, including many children and elderly.

Rescue Task Force (RTF) www.rescuetaskforce.org and World Emergency Relief (WER) are combining relief efforts and are taking immediate action. Our in country contacts are proving invaluable.

RTF has made contact with our in country volunteers via satellite phone.  They are located on the Haitian border and are equipped with an ambulance.  RTF is providing immediate medical supplies including medicines, food, water and more.

The RTF team is assessing long and short terms needs, setting goals and efforts are already underway in bringing in hand sanitizers and cleaning products to the disaster site.

By donating today you will be insured that your gift will be on the front lines helping the victims of this tragedy, and helping the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

Can you Help Today?
Donations are urgently needed!

Online donations: http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html or
Send a checks:
Rescue Task Force
2270 Camino Vida Roble
Suite K
Carlsbad, CA 92011

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If you would like more information please call Andrea Stone 619-991-3669
Andrea Stone

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

Philippines:
In the Philippines, RTF and WER (World Emergency Relief) are wiring cash aid to our valuable WER partner of many years devastated by the typhoon that has claimed hundreds of lives and left hundreds of thousands homeless.

“Sending cash is the quickest way we can help right now,” related Gary Becks, CEO.  “Our project partner has an immediate need for food, drinking water and medicine (for cholera, cough, colds, first aid, and also vitamins). They also need clothes and footwear, blankets and towels.”

Over 50 children and workers at the orphanage that WER supports had to be evacuated by rubber raft through polluted water. (Photo upper left corner.)

Flood waters are above 7 feet high, and the center has at least four feet of standing water. The demand for temporary housing limits where the children and workers can stay. It may be months before they can return to their center.

RTF and WER are committed to helping “our” orphans. Many fled abusive homes and now receive love and care in a safe environment. Their hope is made possible only because of caring people like you.

The needs in the Philippines are overwhelming. Over 400,000 are seeking some kind of assistance at aid shelters. Another typhoon is expected to hit within 24 hours.

We need your help to continue giving these children “a living chance”. Without your compassionate assistance, we can do just so much before we exhaust our limited resource funds.

Can you / will you please help… Each gift will buy critically needed food, water and medicine for the kids in addition to clothes, footwear, blankets and towels.

Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you for being a treasured partner and for your faithful support during so many disasters. I pray that you will help to continue our partnership for these Philippine kids.

Gary Becks
Chief Executive Officer
Rescue Task Force
World Emergency Relief
(760) 930-8001
On Line Donations via our web site:
www.rescuetaskforce.org

Checks to:
Rescue Task Force
864.N Second St #340
El Cajon, CA 92021