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LA’s Haiti rescuers

January 29, 2010

Images of Haiti from returning heroes

The LA County Fire search and rescue team that was hailed for its heroics in Haiti is on its way home. For a look at some of what they encountered and accomplished, click through this gallery of photos the team sent home and posted on Facebook. The team is expected to arrive in L.A. later this afternoon.

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After Haiti, a red-carpet family reunion

Dad was in Haiti on a rescue mission, but the Pinewood Derby waits for no man. So 8-year-old Caden Wells finished building his little wooden car with relatives, christened it “USA” in honor of his father’s faraway search-and-rescue squad and raced it to a personal best third-place finish.

For the Wells family, life went on after Los Angeles County fire captain Bryan Wells shipped out for a 16-day tour of duty in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
But life was not the same.

For the families of the 72-member Los Angeles County Fire Urban Search and Rescue team that returned home to a hero’s welcome Thursday, the time away was measured in hope, prayer, worry, nightly conference calls—and kids counting the days till they could start hanging out with their dads again.

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