Haiti rescue workers rush to help earthquake victims as storm looms
Live MintEmergency teams rushed to the south of Haiti on Monday to find and treat survivors trapped under earthquake debris, with only hours before a major storm was expected to make landfall and drench the remote area in rain and potentially cause flash floods. Across Haiti’s southern peninsula, the region hardest hit by Saturday’s quake, thousands of people were left without shelter after their houses collapsed in the earthquake, giving them nowhere to go as the storm approached. “Since Saturday, we have been working 24-hour days, without stopping, and we will continue to do that," said Jerry Chandler, head of Haiti’s civil-protection agency. “We urgently need to find water, tents and food," said Marie Michelle Sylvie Rameau, the mayor of Les Cayes, in an earlier radio interview with Haitian radio station Magik9. “We’re in a race here," Mr. Shapiro said in a telephone interview from the hospital, located about 2½ hours from Les Cayes.
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