Local rescue crews assist injured quake survivors

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Injured victims from the earthquake continue to arrive in South Florida.

Broward Fire Rescue assisted with four flights that arrived at at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Monday night. A total of 20 patients were on board the planes, most of them children and among them, a 5-day-old baby with its mother.

One picture sent to 7 News shows Broward Fire Rescue Lieutenant Robert Johnsen carrying an injured baby to a waiting ambulance. "We don't know what their injuries are when they are coming in, so we need to triage the patients and find out who needs immediate care, and then they are transported either via private ambulance or fire rescue," said Mike Jachles of Broward Sheriff's Office Fire Rescue.

Meanwhile, one local doctor said South Florida is really stepping up to help earthquake victims. "We brought several patients to Ryder Trauma with burns and bad crush injuries and renal failure, and the hospital's opened up its heart," said Dr. Barth Green of UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital.

BSO Fire Rescue transferred two children to Jackson Memorial Hospital Monday night where doctors are performing surgery on a 2-year-old orphan who lost both parents in Haiti.

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