AERIAL RECOVERY GROUP 

HAITI- DAILY SITREP 08/22/2021

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY 

22 August 2021 LAST 24 

BLUF 

The Aerial Recovery Group Team (Aerial) continues to focus its efforts to provide medical evaluations to those in the hardest to reach areas. Aerial concentrated on the Cherette and Semaille areas north of Saint-Louis-de-Sud during this reporting period. Aerial’s Haiti on-the-ground response is led by retired Green Beret Jeremy Locke who is working with small village guides to get to the most remote areas in search of those too injured to travel through the difficult terrain and coordinate Air Medevac to get them to hospital. ***Please reach out to him if you know of such places. 

Circles depict the areas searched by Aerial Dismounted team

08:00 EDT: Aerial Departed to Saint-Louis-de-SuD to link up with pre-organized guides to start dismounted search in the Cherette area. (Same mission set as last reporting period.) After link-up was...

AERIAL RECOVERY GROUP 

HAITI- DAILY SITREP 08/21/2021

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY 

21 August 2021 LAST 24 

BLUF 

The Aerial Recovery Group Team (Aerial) has refocused its efforts to provide medical evaluations to those in the hardest to reach areas. Aerial concentrated on the Coral Henry area north of Saint-Louis-de-Sud during this reporting period. Aerial’s Haiti on-the-ground response is led by retired Green Beret Jeremy Locke who is working with small village guides to get to the most remote areas in search of those too injured to travel through the difficult terrain and coordinate Air Medevac to get them to hospital. 

20 Aug 2021 dismounted search area depicted in white circle

07:00 EDT: Aerial Departed to Saint-Louis-de-SuD to link up with pre-organized guides to start dismounted search in the Coral Henry area. After link-up was made the team pushed to the vehicle drop off area and headed into the mountains with the primary mission to locate...

AERIAL RECOVERY GROUP 

HAITI- DAILY SITREP 08/19/2021

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY 

19 August 2021 LAST 24 

BLUF 

The Aerial Recovery Group Team (Team Aerial) continues to serve the people of Haiti through casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), resupply, Search and Rescue (SAR) and emergency field medicine operations. The team led Jeremy Locke (Chief of Operations) expanded it’s area of operations east from Les Cayes to Saint-Louis-du-Sud and some of the more rural agricultural villages in that surrounding area. Aerial concurrently provided distribution assistance and security for Global Empowerment Mission as their team arrived during this reporting period. 

07:00 EDT: Team Aerial Departed with vehicles, drivers and a doctor provided by Mission of Hope and Jack Brewer from the Jack Brewer Foundation to the Mission of Hope warehouse and then to the Les Cayes City Center to pick up supplies for the day’s operations. The teams secured dry...

AERIAL RECOVERY GROUP 

HAITI- DAILY SITREP 08/18/2021

haiti-earthquake-flash-update-no-3-18-august-2021 

HLZ Tamara (Marcline, SUD, Haiti).pdf 

Haiti One SITREP 08-18-2021.pdf 

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY 

18 August 2021 LAST 24 

BLUF 

The joint Aerial Recovery Group (Team Aerial) and Jack Brewer Foundation (JBF) team continued medical evacuation and resupply missions working with Mission of Hope in and around Les Cayes, Haiti. Team Aerial has visited multiple collapsed buildings finding that heavy equipment is needed in most situations. Team Aerial has not found any signs of life, but has identified areas of interest (probable cadaver recovery sites) through witness statements and signs of death which will be passed to follow-on teams with cadaver dog capabilities. As of this reporting period, Team Aerial shifted from SAR as a primary mission to Casevac operations as a primary with the SAR capability on hand for hasty missions. 

Probable...

AERIAL RECOVERY GROUP 

HAITI- DAILY SITREP 08/17/2021

HaitiOne Field Report, Les Cayes, 8.17.21.docx 

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY 

17 August 2021 LAST 24 

BLUF 

The joint Aerial Recovery Group (Team Aerial) and Jack Brewer Foundation team continued medical evacuation and resupply missions working with Mission of Hope in and around Les Cayes, Haiti. SAR combined with medical casevac/medevac and other medical missions are of the highest priority within the region. Every hospital in the area has either received structural damage, is under-staffed, overwhelmed with patients, has intermittent to no electricity, under equipped or a combination of all of these factors. It was determined to best facilitate the day’s mission Team Aerial would move into split team operations (Team A,Team B). Team A to assist with patient evacuation and coordinations and Team B to focus on resupply, casevac and shelter construction. 

Ofatma Hospital...

AERIAL RECOVERY GROUP 

HAITI- DAILY SITREP 08/16/2021

Haiti One Rapid Needs Assessment 14 AUG.pdf 

Haiti One Rapid Needs Assessment 15 Aug.pdf 

OCHA_Haiti - Flash Update 1 - Earthquake - 20210815.pdf

OCHA_Haiti - Flash Update 2 - Earthquake - 20210816.pdf 

CURRENT SITUATION & SUMMARY 

14 August 2021 

08:29 EDT a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Sud region of southern Haiti, leaving over a thousand dead and thousands more injured with those numbers expected to climb. A state of emergency has been declared by Prime Minister Ariel Henry. 

15 August 2021 LAST 24 

09:00 EDT: The joint Aerial Recovery Group (Team Aerial) and Jack Brewer Foundation team arrived at the Port-au-Prince-Toussaint Louverture International Airport to prepare for same day movement into Les Cayes. 

11:45 EDT: Team Aerial conducted a meeting with partner organization Food for the Poor at their HeadQuarters to gain situational awareness and conduct deconfliction...