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Members of Los Angeles County Urban Search and Rescue Team arrived in Haiti yesterday and are at work, helping locate and free trapped victims of Tuesday's devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
So far, units have located six victims trapped in collapsed buildings in two separate buildings, about one block away from each other, within Port-au-Prince. Three have already been saved from one of the buildings and firefighters are currently engaged in rescuing the other three.
For updates, they are live tweeting from their new Fire Department Twitter account.
