Monday, January 18, 2010

Haiti Earthquake (Update)


About 1 week ago, there was a horrible earthquake that destroyed the entire capital city of Haiti. 5 days later the US army came with a couple of rescuers to save the trapped people. There are still about 300 residents trapped under buildings! 16 rescuers passed away during their mission. The US department sent Haiti survivors aids/food/water. They knew that many people didn't have enough money to buy supplies, so they gave them out for free. They also had a couple of doctors fly over to Haiti. They mostly cared about the patients that had head injuries!

There were many families separated from their kids, because the earthquake struck while the children were still in school! 2 days ago the rescuers pulled out a child from the school that collapsed. The rescuers took 8 hours till they finally found the 2 year old alive girl. The watchers clapped while the rescuers reunited the mother and child. They still didn't find all the residents! The rescuers search for survivors from 5 am to 9pm. It's a really long day for them!

3 comments:

helenac16108058 said...

Oh mu gosh! Is that a person stuck under all those um.. bricks? Wow, is that person dead?... scary.. really..
:( helena

oh and the comment on top is a mistake you can delete that. :)

Nora Trapp said...

yeah, that's a person under there, can you believe it??? No, the person is still alive, and is suffering fromleg injuries, only.

Anonymous said...

Nora, in some ways you make it sound like no big deal. "The US army came with a couple of rescuers." "A couple of doctors fly over to Haiti." I think it is a little different than that.

mh