When he woke up Saturday to news of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake hitting Haiti, Edwin Raymond immediately knew he wanted to help the relief effort— as he had done in the past. Raymond, a Brooklyn-based NYPD lieutenant, led a team of first responders to Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a 2016 storm that killed more than 900 people.
“The most important thing is to get people from underneath the rubble,” said Raymond, who hopes to assemble more than a dozen responders for a relief trip. “I’m hoping we get a good team together and we can get there as soon as possible.”
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