Sean Kennedy, PE, Regional Director of O'Donnell & Naccarato's Washington, D.C. office and longtime member of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team was deployed to assist in the ongoing rescue effort in the wake of the most powerful earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years.

The Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team was activated to immediately respond to this crisis by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Seventy members of the team and six dogs specially trained to sniff out survivors left Dulles International Airport on Wednesday morning to join in the rescue efforts. The team has with it 48 tons of rescue equipment, including listening devices, search cameras, jackhammers, and medical supplies.

As a long time member of the team and a structural specialist, Mr. Kennedy has been deployed to past disasters including Hurricane Katrina where he provided structural evaluations of many buildings ravaged by the flooding. For this deployment, Mr. Kennedy will assist in the search and rescue operations and assist with the movement of heavy rubble to reach people who may still be alive in crevices that are in voids from buildings that have collapsed.

Nick Cinalli, President & CEO of O'Donnell & Naccarato is "proud to have one of O'Donnell & Naccarato's own among the ranks of those helping in the rescue efforts," and says further that "our thoughts and prayers go out to the many people affected by this catastrophe as well as to the many brave volunteers helping in the rescue effort."