Feds call off Ohio’s Haiti rescue mission

DAYTON (AP) — The government has called off an Ohio search-and-rescue team’s mission to Haiti, saying there’s not enough infrastructure in the ravaged country to support the trip.

An 80-member team and two Air Force C-17 transport planes loaded with tons of equipment had been ready to depart from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Saturday to provide disaster relief.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s foreign disaster assistance office canceled the trip because of a lack of resources in Haiti once the team got there.

Scott Hall, spokesman for the Ohio Task Force One team, says the group has been put on standby until today to await developments.

The planes were unloaded and reassigned.

The Red Cross has estimated that at least 45,000 people were killed after an earthquake struck the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere on Tuesday.