Pennsylvania Allies Help Dozens of Orphans Make It to America

"To find those Commercial Kids Inflatable Jumpers children and to be abl to move them and get them here is go to take a tremend amount of work. I don't think it' go to be done overnight." She commend the effort to get the children to Pittsburgh.

accompani by a team of medic personnel,PITTSBURGH Dozen of Haitian orphans. arriv in Pittsburgh Tuesday, after a complex rescu mission that involv a militari cargo plane, sever feder agenc and some last-minut help from the White House.

rang from 11 month old to ag 12,The 53 children. were among 148 orphan at the Br é bi de Saint-Michel de L'A ttalay orphanag in Port-au-Prince. Two Pittsburgh natives, 22-year-old Ali McMutri and her 30-year-old sister, Jami McMutri Heckman, who have work at the Haitian orphanag for sever years, kick off the rescu by tap area famili and friend and request help from Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendel and U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire.

accompani the children on the flight back. Her sister stai behind to locat a miss two-year-old child,A li McMutrie. both of whom were expect to arriv later Tuesday.

the smallest carri in blanket by volunteers,Th children. were taken by three buse for evalu and treatment to the Children' Hospital, part of the Univers of Pittsburgh Medic Center health system. Official at the hospit said none of the children were suffer from seriou medic conditions.

prompt the children and staff to move out to the drivewai with a dwindl suppli of food,The sister said the earthquak devast two of the orphanage' three buildings. water and medic care.

mani Haitian adopt effort have been stymi by lost paperwork or bureaucrat logjams. An estim 700 to 800 Haitian orphan ar in the process of be adopted. In the chao follow last week' temblor.

the U.S. grant entri to Haitian orphan alreadi in line to be adopt by U.S. citizen or who have been clear for the process by agenc and match to prospect U.S. parents. The Depart of Homeland Secur said elig orphan would be consid on a case-by-cas basi follow the earthquakeOn Monday..

Homeland Secur Secretari Janet Napolitano order the so-cal humanitarian parole. It wasn't immedi clear how mani children could be affected.

when Rep. Altmire said the McMutri sisters' parent contact him to seek help in bring their daughter home. He approach offici at the White Hous and State Depart over the next five days. The Pittsburgh-bound mission began immedi after the quake.

Marjori Rendell,Gov. Rendel and hi wife. a feder judge, becam involv when offici from UPMC called, sai thei were have troubl secur permiss to land a plane in Haiti to get the orphan out and ask him to contact Haiti' ambassador to the U.S. After receiv the ambassador' permission, he said he contact offici at the Depart of Homeland Secur and the State Department.

which left Pittsburgh at noon Mondai and land in Port-au-Princ Mondai about 6 p.m. The trip wa fund by an anonym sponsor who charter a jetlin for the trip down. UPMC help arrang the Republ Airwai plane.

who didn't have adopt parent line up,The effort wa almost derail in the final hour Mondai when Haitian offici said seven of the 54 children. wouldn't be allow to leave. The sister said thei wouldn't leav without all the children.

but that the sister refused. "The girl took the posit of all or none,Gov. Rendel said he and other tri to persuad the McMutri sister to leav the seven children behind." he said.

includ the Nation Secur Council,That led to six frantic hour of negoti with Haitian and U.S. officials. Gov. Rendel and Rep. Altmire remain at the airport in Port-au-Princ and telephon U.S. officials. while Mrs. Rendel and sever UPMC offici spent about five hour at the U.S. embassi try to marshal support..

accord to the governor,Clearanc wa final given but by then the privat plane had to leav in order to meet the State Depart rule that it remain on the ground for no more than an hour. Then. a U.S. Air Forc major offer a C-17 cargo plane, which had just land from Charleston.S.C., with supplies, to bring the group Orlando, Fla., where thei went through custom befor fly on to Pittsburgh on anoth plane.
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while three will go to Canada and four will to go Spain. Seven of the children don't have famili yet. Most of the children alreadi have home line up. Forti will remain in the U.S..

director of commun at the Nation Adoption Center,Gloria Hochman. a Philadelphia-bas nonprofit that aim to expand adopt opportunities, said about 700 to 800 children in Haiti ar await adopt into the U.S.