Haiti Hits Home

Gazette reporter Andrew Ujifusa is in Haiti aboard the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort, which left its home port of Baltimore on Jan. 16. Relief workers from around the world began pouring into the country after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the Caribbean nation's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Jan. 12.

The Comfort, many of its personnel based at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, will be part of the healing effort. It received its first two patients by helicopter around 10:55 p.m. Jan. 19.