NYCThe N.Y. Task Force Urban Search and Rescue team arrives in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 16.
New York police and fire department search and rescue teams yesterday saved four people who had been buried under rubble since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti to its core on Tuesday.
Rescuers pulled a man from a ruined four-story building on Rue Belencourt in Port-au-Prince in the afternoon, police said. Rescuers used jackhammers and cutting tools to reach the 55-year-old after finding him using a camera. Before he could be extricated, Det. Randin Miller, an NYPD paramedic, crawled into the debris to bring the dehydrated man fluids through an IV line. The man, who was on the third floor when the earthquake struck, was not seriously injured, police said.
Earlier in the day, another New York City team completed an all-night effort at a collapsed grocery store by rescuing two men and a teenage girl. The girl was treated for a leg injury at a U.N. hospital set up at the airport and the two men for unknown injuries.
The 40 NYPD and 40 FDNY members are divided into teams based at the Port-au-Prince airport and work shifts that run around the clock. They are expected to stay for at least one week.
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ReplyDeleteRescue workers from NYC pulled three survivors from a collapsed grocery store in Haiti - members of FDNY and NYPD.
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ReplyDeleteBig ovation to Fairfax County, VA, and NYC search and rescue teams for getting on the ground right away in Haiti. Lives were saved today!
ReplyDeleteNYC Urban Search and Rescue Task Force is on their way to save lives in Haiti. May God bless them and keep them safe.
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ReplyDeleteHaiti Relief: MTA/NYC Transit ferried NYPD/NYFD Urban Search & Rescue teams to Stewart AFB for flight to assist earthquake victims. BusNews
ReplyDeleteare experts from NYC helping rescue teams in Haiti?they have experience from rescuing hundreds of people during 911 disaster...
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