Haiti school collapses

in Petionville, near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, a school which consists of kindergarten, primary, and sceondary students collapsed where at least fifty people have died. Amelia Shaw, a journalist with United Nations TV said "the school is poorly built. The disaster occurred when the second floor crumbled onto the first." rescue officials said they will work into the night to try and rescue the trapped. the school is located in a very extreme part of town which has made the rescue difficult as well. the surrounding roads are in poor condition and the UN sent a helicopter to help but could not because it was unable to land. to make things worse out of the three local hospitals only one is in service during this crisis. Trinite is the only hospital open in Port-au-Prince, the other two General Hospital and Hospital de la Paix are closed by strikes. close to sixty injured, thirty of which are severe, have been taken to Trinite. Michaele Gedeon, president of Haiti's Red Cross, said she heard the voices of distraught children as rescuers tried to calm them while she was on the phone attempting to coordinate emergency rescue efforts.
"On the phone, you can hear so many children, you know, crying, crying and saying, 'this one is dead,' 'that one is dead,' " she said (cnn.com). up to 700 people were on campus grounds when it happened, officials said, some were in the class rooms while others were on the playground. i think this sucks and feel sad when i hear stories like these. this was a poor neighborhood, which was bad enough, and then this had to happen.