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WENATCHEE -- Stunned by reports of Haiti's devasting earthquake, local residents with ties to the Caribbean country waited this morning for news of friends and colleagues living in and near Port-Au-Prince.

Thousands of buildings in the capital city were crushed Tuesday by a magnitude-7.0 tremor, and aftershocks continued today.

Details emerging from the country this morning were still sketchy, said a local doctor and nurse who have visited the country frequently in the past 25 years. Both were monitoring news from the capital through online sources and e-mails from acquaintances both in and out of the stricken country.

Marriah Thornock, executive director of the Apple Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, said no local volunteers have been assigned yet to travel to Haiti, but conversations with the group's regional and national offices were scheduled to take place sometime today.

"They (Haitian residents) aren't well-prepared for this kind of devastating emergency," said Dr. Dale Peterson, a urologist recently retired from the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center. He visits the country a few times each year as part of a local team bringing specialized medical skills to the country's northern region, which reportedly was untouched by Tuesday's quake. "Even in the best of times, extensive rescue work would be difficult."

The infrastructure to handle widespread emergencies -- a 911 system, adequate hospitals, working electricity and plumbing -- aren't in place, said the doctor.

He estimated that the city of 2 million people, surrounded by extensive shantytowns, may have only 900 established hospital beds. And this morning, some hospitals were reported to have collapsed into rubble. Basic construction throughout the country, said Peterson, consists of concrete blocks with little internal support -- very little rebar or steel bracing -- which could be prone to collapse.

"These are conditions," he said, "you'll find in many Third World countries."

Diana Carty, of Wenatchee, a nurse and missionary with close Haitian ties, reported that three Methodist missionaries visiting Port-Au-Prince were missing this morning in the rubble of the Friends of Haiti Organization guest house in which they were staying.

The guest house, part of Methodist missionary headquarters in the capital, was constructed recently using rebar and bracing, she said. "And still it collapsed."

As a missionary and nurse, Carty lived in Haiti from 1987 to 1998 in a village about 100 miles from Port-Au-Prince. She still visits frequently as a member of Wenatchee Free Methodist Church, which has sent missionaries and additional support to Haiti for years.

"It's my understanding from e-mails that the top priority is to locate the injured and medi-vac them out of the area," Carty said. "The condition of the airport seems to be OK, but is not exactly clear. I've heard medical ships are expected to be there soon."

Carty said she and others are waiting for orders about what to do -- what services are needed, what action would best help the people of Haiti. "The U.S. embassy is predicting civil unrest," she said, "so it could be very dangerous there. Soon, people will become desperate, and desperate people can do desperate things."

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