Audio slideshow: Triage at the airport

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Photojournalist Rick Loomis arrived in Port-au-Prince yesterday with a triage unit from Miami. He’s put together a narrated slide show of the sights and sounds as emergency workers try to help victims of the earthquake. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times Copyright © 2010)

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Photo: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times Copyright © 2010

Photo: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times Copyright © 2010

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JEB SHARP: Rick Loomis arrived in Port-au-Prince yesterday with a triage unit from Miami.

RICK LOOMIS: I’m here now in a makeshift hospital that’s near the airport.

SHARP: Rick Loomis is a Los Angeles Times photojournalist. He’s put together a narrated slideshow of the sites and sounds as emergency workers try to help victims of the earthquake. You can see it at The World dot org.

LOOMIS: … a complete scene of chaos. Casualties you know lined up waiting to be seen without really any real medical attention given to them and these guys just went straight to work … .

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