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		<title>Diane Bell talks to Gary D. Becks</title>
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Since Gary D. Becks founded the Rescue Task Force in 1988, he and volunteers for the Carlsbad-based nonprofit relief organization have traveled the world bringing aid to victims of natural and man-made disasters. Last year, the agency merged with World Emergency Relief and most recently sent a team to Haiti.
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<p>Since Gary D. Becks founded the Rescue Task Force in 1988, he and volunteers for the Carlsbad-based nonprofit relief organization have traveled the world bringing aid to victims of natural and man-made disasters. Last year, the agency merged with World Emergency Relief and most recently sent a team to Haiti.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> What inspired you to start the Rescue Task Force?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> I was raised and brought up with “old-time religion” morals and mentality. My mother was always volunteering her time in church and was a mentor to my sister and me in “giving back.” As a fire battalion commander, I went on a volunteer mission deep into the jungles of Honduras’ Mosquito Coast. I quickly found myself in a canoe paddling and wading through swamps to alleviate suffering in tiny villages. Our relief team was overwhelmed. … I looked around at the vast jungles, the hundreds of families in need, the distance we traveled, and it hit me hard: “Where is everyone?” Where are the Americans?”</p>
<p><strong>Question</strong>: When did you decide to quit your job and dedicate all your time to this effort?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> I brought the stories home to my family. I have four children, and with their support, we decided to leave the life we knew and move full-force into our new life of putting out fires on a bigger scale. No regrets. No looking back — we have a world to save, and we are doing that — one village, one disaster, one heart, one life at a time.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> How many relief missions have you gone on?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> My daughter, Andrea Stone, and I have spent many years as a father-daughter team responding to disasters, building clinics, providing clean water and more. Together we are on our 294th mission and counting. I have been to just about every man-made disaster: Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan and to natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. However, to many people of the world, every day is a disaster.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> What was your most emotional visit?</p>
<p><strong>Answer</strong>: There are many emotions with every mission: disaster relief, medical/dental teams, shipping lifesaving supplies. … One that will live with me forever was visiting the severely war-wounded at U.S. military hospitals. We provide them with backpacks filled with entertainment and personal comfort items. After visiting with a 22-year-old Marine who had lost both arms and one leg, I witnessed his dad there tenderly caring for him. My gift was bigger than a backpack. I was giving him the gift of thanks and appreciation. He was not forgotten. Leaving his hospital room, I headed straight for the parking lot. I had a good cry, and not a moment goes by that I don’t appreciate our country, our soldiers and those who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> What images stay with you?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> I would have to say the children — the discomforts they endure with parasites; bloated bellies and malnutrition. Seeing a lethargic, weak little life just hanging on, one shallow breath at a time, for what is as simple as a $1 dose of worm medicine and clean water. If only we had enough money to save the world.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> What makes your organization different from the Red Cross or other emergency relief groups?</p>
<p><strong>Answer</strong>: We do not have limits. There is no delay. … No red tape. We go where others do not, doing what others will not. We put in power, dig latrines, set up tents, search cities for baby formula, deliver emergency supplies via airboat, helicopter, canoe and mule — we do it all. One thing that sets us apart: We listen to needs. Many times our aid is given in the form of a simple hug or a shirt sleeve to wipe away painful tears.</p>
<p><strong>Question</strong>: Where do your contributions come from?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> About 80 percent from private individuals and the balance from businesses, churches, service clubs and the like.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> Could you describe your role in Haiti after the earthquake?</p>
<p>Answer: My daughter, Andrea, has done a phenomenal job of leading both a World Emergency Relief and “boots on the ground” Rescue Task Force team through this disaster. And we certainly aren’t done. We are shipping over $4.3 million of relief supplies to Haiti. These medicines, food and supplies will go to those in need — not into a warehouse at the airport. Guaranteed!</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> Why did your daughter follow you in this line of work?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> Andrea shares my gift. She, too, can feel and hear the needs from around the world. In her 37 years, she has lived more life than some people I know who are over 70. She was born with a heart condition and wasn’t supposed to live past age 3. Year after year she kept living, her heart compensating for her narrow veins. She has the scars to prove her battle to live and enough passion to save the world. Andrea’s first trip was just six months after undergoing her open-heart surgery.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> What do you personally get out of it?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> The benefits are great — turning homelessness into shelter, fear into security. I get so much out of seeing life — lives touched, lives bettered and lives saved.</p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong> How do you want to be remembered?</p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> As a guy who enabled ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Most importantly, though, I will not be remembered. With time, the kids we see and the tears we dry will pass into distant memories. The villagers and victims will forget the names Rescue Task Force and World Emergency Relief. But they will never forget, during their time of need, the day that the Americans came.</p>
<p><em>This is one in an occasional series of Q&amp;As that columnist Diane Bell conducts with newsmakers. If you have suggestions of people you would like her to interview, e-mail <a href="http://mailto:diane.bell@uniontrib.com">diane.bell@uniontrib.com</a>.</em></p>
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<p><em><strong>PROFILE</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong>Gary D. Becks</strong></p>
<p>President/CEO of the nonprofit World Emergency Relief and head of its Rescue Task Force program.</p>
<p><strong>Born:</strong> Aug. 8, 1945</p>
<p><strong>Education</strong>: Pacific High School in San Bernardino, 1963; fire-science community college courses.</p>
<p><strong>Military</strong>: Navy, 1965-69, including service as a medical corpsman with the Marines.</p>
<p><strong>Work experience:</strong> San Bernardino County firefighter, 1973-87; senior research analyst, U.S. House of Representatives 1992-93; special assistant to Rep. Duncan Hunter, 1993-2008; founder/president of Rescue Task Force, 1988; agency merged into World Emergency Relief in 2009.</p>
<p><strong>Family:</strong> Lives in El Cajon with his wife, Benyapa, whom he met on a 2004 tsunami-relief mission to Thailand. He has four grown children, and Benyapa has one son.</p>
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<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yekq224">Reprinted from SignOnSanDiego article</a> Monday, February 15, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.</p>
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		<title>RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM &#8211; VOLUNTEER WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES ARRIVE</title>
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Carlsbad, California


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RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM &#8211; 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.”


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<p>Monday, January 25, 2010<br />
Carlsbad, California
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<p>CONTACT:<br />
Andrea Stone<br />
Tel: 760-930-9089<br />
Cell: 619-991-3669<br />
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org
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<p>“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.”
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<p>World Emergency Relief’s Rescue Task Force Team Update:
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<p>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&#8217;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.
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<p>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.
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<p>Also, just in from Rescue Task Force team member, Stanley Vincent, who in &#8220;normal life&#8221; 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.”
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<p>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.
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<p>As they travel, delivering food, water and supplies today – Please keep them in your prayers.
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<p>Gary and Benyapa Becks returned safety from their mission to Asia.
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<p>More updates as they come in&#8230;
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<p>Online donations may be made at <a href="http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html">http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html</a>
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<p>Send checks to:<br />
Rescue Task Force<br />
2270 Camino Vida Roble<br />
Suite K<br />
Carlsbad, CA 92011
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<p>Follow up-to-the-minute details on our team at:<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/rescuetaskforce">Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce</a><br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/MorrowChris">Twitter.com/MorrowChris </a>
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<p>Rescue Task Force Team in Haiti &#8211; Daily Journal &#8211; <a href="http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-396996">CNN iReport</a>
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<p>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.”
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<p><em>Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities.</em>
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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 &#8211; Hard Rock Hotel San Diego is right beside them to give support. On Friday, January 22, 2010, the [...]]]></description>
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<p>January 22, 2010<br />
Carlsbad, California</p>
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<p>MEDIA CONTACT:<br />
Rana Kay<br />
(619) 846-0448<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:ranak@hardrockhotelsd.com">ranak@hardrockhotelsd.com</a></p>
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<p>Andrea Stone<br />
Tel: 760-930-9089<br />
Cell: 619-991-3669<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:andrea@rescuetaskforce.org ">andrea@rescuetaskforce.org</a></p>
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<p><strong>HARD ROCK HOTEL, SAN DIEGO – HELPING RESCUE TASK FORCE</strong></p>
<p><strong>HELPING HAITI EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS</strong></p>
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<p>While Rescue Task Force team is “boots-on-the-ground” saving lives in Haiti &#8211; 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.</p>
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<p>Please Come and Dance to Save a Life.</p>
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<p>WHO: Hard Rock Hotel San Diego’s 207 Nightclub &amp; Rescue Task Force</p>
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<p>WHAT: Fundraiser for Haiti Earthquake Victims – Proceeds to Rescue Task Force</p>
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<p>WHEN: Friday, January 22, 2010, 9 pm</p>
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<p>WHERE: Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, 207 Nightclub. 207 5th Ave San Diego, CA 92101</p>
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<p>VISUALS: San Diegans dancing for a cause as Hard Rock Hotel’s 207 nightlcub donates 100%<br />
of its $20 door charge to Rescue task Force in support of Haiti Earthquake Victims.  Celebrity DJ Eric Cubeechee headlines.</p>
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<p>Space is limited.  For more information go to: <a href="http://www.207sd.com">207sd.com</a></p>
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<p>Online donations may be made at <a href="http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html">http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html</a> or</p>
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<p>Send checks to:<br />
Rescue Task Force<br />
2270 Camino Vida Roble<br />
Suite K<br />
Carlsbad, CA 92011</p>
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<p>Follow up-to-the-minute details on our team at:<br />
<a href="http://www.Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce">Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce</a><br />
<a href="http://www.Twitter.com/MorrowChris">Twitter.com/MorrowChris</a></p>
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<p>Rescue Task Force Team in Haiti &#8211; CNN iReport: <a href="http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-396996">http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-396996</a></p>
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<p>Many organizations are responding to and seeking support for the Haiti disaster. Rescue Task Force&#8217;s experience of providing emergency disaster relief &#8220;Around the World, Around the Clock&#8221; for over 20 years means that victims will receive essential aid quickly.</p>
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<p><em>Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities.</em></p>
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January 21, 2010
Carlsbad, California
Contact: Andrea Stone
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Cell: 619-991-3669
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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


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<p>January 21, 2010<br />
Carlsbad, California<br />
Contact: Andrea Stone<br />
Tel: 760-930-9089<br />
Cell: 619-991-3669<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:andrea@rescuetaskforce.org ">andrea@rescuetaskforce.org </a><br />
Follow CNN IREPORT: <a href="http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-396996">http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-396996</a></p>
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<p><strong>MISSION TWO: ACCOMPLISHED</strong></p>
<p><strong>RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM DELIVERS RESOURCES, MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND MORE TO GOOD SAMARITAN SCHOOL</strong></p>
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<p>8:20 pm January 21st</p>
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<p>Via phone, Darryl Hall, Team Leader, “There are a lot of people looking for supplies that are not here yet. We finished the School &#8211; 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 &amp; 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.&#8221;</p>
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<p>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.”</p>
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<p>These are desperate requests for help – These are real. They need more – a lot more.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>We have the WILL we just need the WAY. Will you be the way – the answer – the difference between life and death?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Please help us help these victims of this catastrophic event.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Haiti desperately needs us right now.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Please keep our team in prayer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Online donations may be made at <a href="http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html">http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html</a> or</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Send checks to:<br />
Rescue Task Force<br />
2270 Camino Vida Roble<br />
Suite K<br />
Carlsbad, CA 92011</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Follow up to the minute details on our team at:<br />
<a href="http://www.Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce">Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce</a><br />
<a href="http://www.Twitter.com/MorrowChris">Twitter.com/MorrowChris</a></p>
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<p>Many organizations are responding to and seeking support for the Haiti disaster. Rescue Task Force&#8217;s experience of providing emergency disaster relief &#8220;Around the World, Around the Clock&#8221; for over 20 years means that victims will receive essential aid quickly.</p>
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<p><em>Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities.</em></p>
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		<title>RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM DELIVERS LIFE SAVING MEDICINE</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>January 21, 2010<br />
Carlsbad, California<br />
Contact: Andrea Stone<br />
Tel: 760-930-9089<br />
Cell: 619-991-3669<br />
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org</p>
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<p><strong>SAVING LIVES – MISSION ONE: ACCOMPLISHED<br />
RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM DELIVERS LIFE SAVING MEDICINE</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Rescue Task Force</strong> (<strong>RTF</strong>) 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.</p>
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<p><strong>RTF</strong> got into the country quickly and began immediately assisting people in need by working with Global Reach and the Civil-Military Fusion Centre (<a href="https://www.cimicweb.org">www.cimicweb.org</a>) in response to the Haiti earthquake.</p>
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<p>The <strong>RTF Team</strong> 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.</p>
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<p>Because of the extraordinary efforts in getting these valuable medicines to Haiti, <strong>RTF</strong> was the only humanitarian allowed to set up a base camp for the night on embassy grounds.</p>
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<p>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, <strong>World Emergency Relief – UK</strong>, has grown to over 2,000 people. They are in desperate need of food and other essential humanitarian supplies.</p>
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<p>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.”</p>
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<p>Andrea Stone, <em>Rescue Task Force&#8217;s Executive Officer</em>, related, &#8220;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 <strong>Rescue Task Force team</strong> on the ground in Haiti continues to make us proud.</p>
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<p>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.”</p>
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<p>• • •</p>
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<p><strong>Your prayers and donations are needed, now!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>It is as simple as that. The response to this tragedy cannot wait. Please help. Your help will alleviate suffering and save lives.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Please keep our team in prayer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p><strong>Online donations may be made at <a href="http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html">http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html</a></strong> or</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Send checks to:<br />
Rescue Task Force<br />
2270 Camino Vida Roble<br />
Suite K<br />
Carlsbad, CA 92011</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Follow up to the minute details on our team at:<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/rescuetaskforce">Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce</a><br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/MorrowChris">Twitter.com/MorrowChris</a></p>
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<p>Many organizations are responding to and seeking support for the Haiti disaster. Rescue Task Force&#8217;s experience of providing emergency disaster relief &#8220;Around the World, Around the Clock&#8221; for over 20 years means that victims will receive essential aid quickly.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
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<p><em>Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities.</em></p>
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		<title>6.1 EARTHQUAKE HITS HAITI RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM SHAKEN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>January 20, 2010<br />
Carlsbad, California<br />
Contact: Andrea Stone<br />
Tel: 760-930-9089<br />
Cell: 619-991-3669<br />
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org</p>
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<p><strong>6.1 EARTHQUAKE HITS HAITI RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM SHAKEN</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><br />
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<p>World Emergency Relief&#8217;s Rescue Task Force (RTF) team does not slow down even when the ground below them is shaking.</p>
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<p>RTF team is fine after a 6.1 earthquakes shakes the ground under their feet.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>“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 <em>Executive Officer</em></p>
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<p><strong>RTF is there “</strong><strong>Around the World, Around the Clock”.</strong></p>
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<p>== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==</p>
<p>***This event supersedes event AT00398542.</p>
<p>Region: HAITI REGION<br />
Geographic coordinates: 8.428N,  72.875W<br />
Magnitude: 6.1 M<br />
Depth: 9 km<br />
Universal Time (UTC): 20 Jan 2010  11:03:44<br />
Time near the Epicenter: 20 Jan 2010  06:03:44<br />
Local standard time in your area: 20 Jan 2010  03:03:44</p>
<p>Location with respect to nearby cities:<br />
41 km (26 miles) WNW (301 degrees) of Jacmel, Sud-Est, Haiti<br />
49 km (31 miles) WSW (257 degrees) of Carrefour, Ouest, Haiti<br />
59 km (36 miles) WSW (257 degrees) of PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti</p>
<p>National Earthquake Information Center</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Children on their knees next to their parents – parents that did not survive the quake. Crying, lost and orphaned.</p>
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</em></p>
<p>These are children, families, and elderly pleading for our rescue.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Please keep our team in your thoughts and prayers as they face chaos and danger.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p><strong>Rescue Task Force needs your help. Please donate to help those who really need it!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Online donations: http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html or</p>
<p>Send checks to:<br />
Rescue Task Force<br />
2270 Camino Vida Roble<br />
Suite K<br />
Carlsbad, CA 92011</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
</em></p>
<p>Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of charities.</p>
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		<title>RESCUE TASK FORCE PACKING FOR DISASTER RESPONSE TO HAITI DISASTER</title>
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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&#8217;s Residence
For address details call Darryl or Andrea
San Diego, CA [...]]]></description>
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<p>January 18, 2010</p>
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<p><strong>RESCUE TASK FORCE PACKING FOR DISASTER RESPONSE TO HAITI DISASTER</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Who:</strong> Rescue Task Force team packing relief supplies for Haiti, January 18, 2010</p>
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<p><strong>What:</strong> Team briefing meeting and packing<br />
Team will be available for press interviews</p>
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<p><strong>When:</strong> January 18, 2010 12:00 PM</p>
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<p><strong>Where:</strong> Volunteer Team Leader Darryl Hall&#8217;s Residence<br />
For address details call Darryl or Andrea<br />
San Diego, CA 92124</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em><br />
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<p><strong>Contact:</strong> Darryl Hall 858-583-3485 &#8211; Cell or Andrea Stone 619-991-3669 &#8211; Cell</p>
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<p><strong>Visual:</strong> Team will be packing, loading and heading for the airport</p>
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<p><strong>TEAM DEPARTURE FOR HAITI</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Who:</strong> Rescue Task Force Disaster Team<br />
San Diego based World Emergency Relief’s Rescue Task Force is sending their volunteer relief team to Haiti</p>
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<p><strong>What:</strong> Team Departs via American Airlines – available for press interviews</p>
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<p><strong>When:</strong> January 18, 2010, 2:30 PM</p>
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<p><strong>Where:</strong> American Airlines terminal &#8211; San Diego&#8217;s Lindberg Field</p>
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<p><strong>Visual:</strong> Team will say goodbye to family and friends and will board the plane to provide relief to the Haitian victims of this catastrophic earthquake</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Please help us, help these hungry, thirsty, hurt and terrified people. They need us!  They need you!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
Donate Online: <a href="http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html">http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html</a></p>
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<p>Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities</p>
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Friday, January 15, 2010
PRESS ADVISORY AT 1:00 PM
Interview Darryl Hall, leaving for Haiti
2270 Camino Vida Roble, Suite K, Carlsbad, CA 92010


RESCUE TASK FORCE SENDNG A TEAM TO HAITI

The cries for help have been heard…
We are on our way!!!


Rescue Task Force’s (RTF) “boots-the-ground,” team a will be leaving for Haiti on Monday, January 18th, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Friday, January 15, 2010</p>
<p>PRESS ADVISORY AT 1:00 PM</p>
<p>Interview Darryl Hall, leaving for Haiti</p>
<p>2270 Camino Vida Roble, Suite K, Carlsbad, CA 92010</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>RESCUE TASK FORCE SENDNG A TEAM TO HAIT</strong>I</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The cries for help have been heard…</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>We are on our way!!!</em></p>
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<p>Rescue Task Force’s (RTF) “boots-the-ground,” team a will be leaving for Haiti on Monday, January 18th, 2010.</p>
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<p><em>RTF’s veteran volunteer Darryl Hall along with Chris Simmons, Jose Garcia and John McRae are packing up their gear and heading into the devastated Port-au-Prince to bring some much needed immediate relief.</em></p>
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<p><em>“The immediate needs the first few days after mother nature strikes are a given &#8211; basic food, water, shelter, sanitation along with anti diarrhea medicines and Tylenol. Within days disease and cholera set in and the needs change quickly. RTF there, on the ground, will assess the needs, purchase the supplies and do direct distribution.”</em></p>
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<p>- Andrea Stone, Executive Officer RTF<br />
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<p>Your donations help hand-to-hand – Your hand to our hand to their hand.</p>
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<p>Working with our local in-country volunteers the support will go to those who need the help the most.</p>
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Please help us help those that are hurting right now.</p>
<p>Please help to save a life.</p>
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<p><em>Online donations: <a href="http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html">http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html</a> or</em></p>
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<p><em>Send Checks to:</em></p>
<p><em>Rescue Task Force</p>
<p>2270 Camino Vida Roble</p>
<p>Suite K</p>
<p>Carlsbad, CA 92011</p>
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<p><em>760-930-9089</em></p>
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<p><em>For media contact</em></p>
<p><em>Andrea Stone</p>
<p>Tel: 760-930-8001</p>
<p>Cel: 619-991-3669</p>
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<p><em>Email: <a href="mailto:andrea@rescuetaskforce.org">andrea@rescuetaskforce.org</a></em></p>
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<p><em><strong>Can you Help Today?</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Donations are urgently needed!</strong></p>
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<p><em>Rescue Task Force has responded to man made and natural disasters for over 20 years. Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief Family of Charities</em></p>
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		<title>HAITI HIT BY DISASTROUS 7.0 EARTHQUAKE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>Wednesday, January 13, 2010<br />
San Diego, California<br />
Contact: Andrea Stone<br />
Tel: 760-930-8001<br />
Cel: 619-991-3669<br />
Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org</p>
<p><strong>HAITI HIT BY DISASTROUS 7.0 EARTHQUAKE</strong></p>
<p><em>Perhaps as many as 500,000 lives lost</em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Rescue Task Force </strong>(<strong>RTF</strong>) www.rescuetaskforce.org and <strong>World Emergency Relie</strong>f (<strong>WER</strong>) are combining relief efforts and are taking immediate action. Our in country contacts are proving invaluable.</p>
<p><strong>RTF</strong> has made contact with our in country volunteers via satellite phone.  They are located on the Haitian border and are equipped with an ambulance.  <strong>RTF</strong> is providing immediate medical supplies including medicines, food, water and more.</p>
<p>The <strong>RTF</strong> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Can you Help Today?<br />
Donations are urgently needed!</strong></p>
<p>Online donations: <a href="http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html">http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html</a> or<br />
Send a checks:<br />
Rescue Task Force<br />
2270 Camino Vida Roble<br />
Suite K<br />
Carlsbad, CA 92011</p>
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<p>If you would like more information please call Andrea Stone 619-991-3669<br />
Andrea Stone</p>
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		<title>Media Alert: Responding to Honduras Earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to Honduras Earthquake
Contact:
Gary Becks (619) 887-9230
Andrea Stone  (619) 991-3669 (Today only)
Peggy Reiber (WER) (760) 930-8001
Rescue Task Force (RTF) and World Emergency Relief (WER) are responding to the 7.1 earthquake that struck Honduras at 2:20 AM this morning.
Team Leader Andrea Stone will depart from Los Angeles tonight and fly to Tegucigalpa, the capital of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Responding to Honduras Earthquake</h1>
<p><strong>Contact:<br />
Gary Becks (619) 887-9230<br />
Andrea Stone  (619) 991-3669 (Today only)<br />
Peggy Reiber (WER) (760) 930-8001</strong></p>
<p>Rescue Task Force (<strong>RTF</strong>) and World Emergency Relief (<strong>WER</strong>) are responding to the 7.1 earthquake that struck Honduras at 2:20 AM this morning.</p>
<p>Team Leader Andrea Stone will depart from Los Angeles tonight and fly to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras where she will meet with <strong>RTF</strong> team member Jim McNeely, coming from Atlanta.   Upon arrival they will meet with our Honduras coordinator, Dr. Claudio Casas who is assembling a local team of Honduran doctors and volunteers – veterans of many <strong>RTF</strong> jungle missions.</p>
<p>The orphanage that<strong> WER</strong>-CA sponsors has sustained heavy damage to the dormitory.  Thirty-six of our orphans have been moved into the office and the dining area.</p>
<p>Jose our local warehouseman’s home was destroyed.  He, his wife and baby are the first of probably many to move into our <strong>WER</strong> warehouse.</p>
<p>Mission Details to follow as the day progresses.  We are in contact with colleagues at the Fire Department in Honduras and the combined team will be coordinating our disaster relief activities with them for help to isolated areas that the Fire department will not be able to immediately assist.</p>
<p>Note to Supporters:<br />
We need help!!!   This is a 9-1-1 call for help from our friends in Honduras of so many years.  We are responding on faith. Please, can you help send this team…</p>
<p>Donations:<br />
Via website:  <a href="http://www.rescuetaskforce.org">www.rescuetaskforce.org</a> click the donate now button</p>
<p>Mail:<br />
Rescue Task Force<br />
864 N. Second St.  #340<br />
El Cajon, CA 92021</p>
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