U.S. Search-and-Rescue Teams Are Arriving in Haiti

The U.S. Agency for International Development has dispatched a disaster assessment team along with a U.S. military assessment team to determine the scope of the humanitarian crisis affecting the Haitian people in the aftermath of one of the region’s most violent earthquakes in a century.
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah said January 13 that an agency Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) was expected to arrive in Haiti from San Jose, Costa Rica, about 1:30 p.m. EST (18:30 GMT) to assess the crisis even as relief efforts from governments and relief agencies gear up their responses. He said two urban search-and-rescue teams with 72 personnel each are being sent to Haiti.
In addition to a USAID mission already in Haiti, the deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Army Lieutenant General P.K. Keen, is in Port-au-Prince and has already begun providing an assessment for the U.S. military, SOUTHCOM Commander General Douglas Fraser said at a special briefing January 13 in Washington.
USAID is working in conjunction with the U.S. departments of State, Defense and Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in mounting relief efforts, he added.
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