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The command is also working with non-governmental agencies to get supplies and medical capabilities to the affected area.

Southern Command Chief Says Speed, Effort Needed to Save Haitian Lives

By Jim Garamone, DOD News

HERO and the U.S. Army work side by side to treat and transport injured people who are still being flown in from the quake-struck region.

U.S. uses choppers, ships and military personnel to deliver aid to Haiti quake victims

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES

UPDATED AUGUST 31, 2021

A healthcare worker from HERO, an emergency medical ambulance and medevac service, transports families to a tent hospital at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-Au-Prince

Almost 2 Weeks After The Quake, Aid Is Just Getting To Some Remote Towns In Haiti

August 25, 2021

Petty Officer 1st Class Rob Updike and HERO Rescue paramedic Nadia Van der Heyden evaluate an injured female in Haiti, Aug. 15, 2021

More Military Support Heading to Haiti After Earthquake, Tropical Storm Leave 1,400 Dead

17 Aug 2021

Military.com   By  Patricia Kime

Coffee or Die Magazine interviews HERO Director

ON THE GROUND WITH AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM IN HAITI

By Justen Charters | February 15, 2019

Haiti is the 16th poorest country in the world. It’s rife with crime, poverty, and corruption. However, despite all that, it’s also a place where HERO — an organization founded by Stacy Librandi Bourne and composed of veterans, EMTs, and firefighters — is doing a lot of good.

James Paul Wallis reports on how teams responded to the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti and the US, Hurricane Matthew first made landfall over Haiti on 4 October, before hitting Cuba, the Bahamas and the US. It’s estimated to have caused damages of over US$10.5 billion, making it the costliest storm since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and killed as many as 1,600 people, making it the deadliest since Hurricane Stan in 2005.

Metro news reports on the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, focusing on the devastation in the Grand'Anse department and the critical aid provided by the "Heroes" rescue organization. Their efforts in reaching cut-off areas like Dame-Marie, providing medical assistance to over sixty injured people, and supporting overwhelmed hospital staff when national authorities struggled to communicate with the region.

SAN ANTONIO – Two local paramedics lead a life-saving mission through storm-ravaged Haiti, to a remote peninsula cut off from the rest of the world.

Josh James and Matthew Neel, paramedics at Acadian Ambulance Services, said they were approached about joining an emergency response team to the island shortly after Hurricane Matthew hit.

Damon Faust applies skills he developed in the military to first response in Haiti, and he helps other veterans do the same.

Damon Faust and business partner Ross Fielder have a vision: putting veterans’ skill sets to work in Haiti

LIMA — Nurse practitioner Tim Mosher has visited the country of Haiti a total of 13 times, providing medical care to its impoverished citizens with the help of volunteers at St. Rita’s Medical Center. It was through these visits that Mosher realized Haitian citizens are lacking even the most basic medical equipment, including vehicles to transport patients.

Reservists deliver humanitarian aid to Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- As a gray aircraft emerged from the scattered clouds ready to land on the steaming runway at Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport in Tabarre, near Port-au-Prince, Kathy Cadden, Operation Ukraine president and founder, looked to the sky and said, "Thank God for the U.S. Air Force!"