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January 21, 2010

Adrenaline rush on the Comfort

comfort burn victim The doctors, nurses and other medical staff on the Comfort are still feeling the initial adrenaline rush of helping the Haitians. They're enduring 16-hour days, and yet asking for even more patients. Meanwhile, the crew keeps growing, as new staffers come onboard this morning.

There is no shortage of injuries to treat. One Haitian man, a school bus driver, was pumping gas when the earthquake hit -- rupturing the gas pump and leaving him with horrendous burns. Yet when he reached the Comfort, this guy seemed like one of the happiest people on the ship. I don't think I've ever seen anyone so happy to be sitting in an emergency room. Here's audio from an interview Thursday morning for The Sun.

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Thank you for the updates! My spouse is on the Comfort and I appreciate reading what they are doing to help the people of Haiti!

Posted by: Latrice | January 21, 2010 6:09 PM

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Reporter Robert Little, a native Baltimorean, has worked at The Baltimore Sun for 11 years. A former national correspondent, he has reported on military medical issues, and was the recipient of a George Polk Award for a series of articles about an experimental drug used on U.S. service members in Iraq. He also reported from Louisiana in 2005 on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Photographer Kim Hairston, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, has worked at The Baltimore Sun for 21 years. She studied photojournalism at Ohio University as a master degree candidate. While on assignment for The Sun, she has covered a number of assignments including Catholic Relief Service outreach in Ecuador; AIDS and squalor in Soweto, South Africa and hurricane relief in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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