Hummers to the Rescue in Haiti

(SM Daily Herald 19-1-2010) United States military Humvees are playing a vital role in getting relief and aid to areas unreachable by other vehicles. It's ability to traversre cracks in the roadways and go over concrete blocks and floor slabs laying on the roads have helped rescue teams reach the eastern areas of destruction. The famed Turkish rescue team has been given two Hummers by the US military forces to use at their discretion.
Four civilian versions of the Humvee, known more commonly as the H1 are being used by the Red Cross to provide aid and to extract critically injured patients to a staging area where some are being flown to an aircraft carrier, eighteen miles offshore from the triage area. Haitian relief coordinator Mishau Prudome said, "We could use another 200 of these Humvees." A US Air Force C5, Galaxy was seen unloading ten Humvees and two tankers of water around midnight.
The main problem facing rescuers now is the lack of medical and