Friday, January 22, 2010
Crews from the 910th Airlift Wing at the Youngstown Reserve Station were set to return from a relief mission to aid earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Friday.
The station, based in Vienna, has sent three C-130H Hercules tactical cargo aircraft to the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, Master Sergeant Bob Barko said. A fourth aircraft has been activated as well, he said.
On Thursday the airlift wing picked up 18,400 pounds of food and water from the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida and dropped it at San Isidro Air Base in the Dominican Republic, Barko said.
“It was FEMA prepackaged food,” he said. “And two pallets of bottled water.”
The food was unloaded from the aircraft and placed onto flatbed trucks to be delivered to Haiti, he said.
The local airlift wing also delivered aid late Sunday night, when it landed in Port-au-Prince, Barko said.
Read more in Saturday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com