MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two volunteers from a Milwaukee church group are safe in Haiti after a powerful earthquake. Volunteers at the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukeeâ??s Haiti Project were trying Tuesday and Wednesday to reach two men who had been working in a small village in the mountains near the community of Jeannette, Haiti.
Seven current and former University of Wisconsin-Madison students were doing electrical work and trying to establish an Internet connection. Five returned already and the other two were to return Wednesday. One is from California and the other from Minnesota. Project coordinator, Jan Byrd, says they posted a Facebook message Wednesday that they were on a roof of a guesthouse when it collapsed and they are safe.