His family has not heard from Washougal’s Walt Ratterman, who was in the Hotel Montana in Port-Au-Prince when an earthquake devastated Haiti Tuesday.
Here is The Columbian’s Saturday story on Walt Ratterman
“We have a better time line of where they might have been in the hotel,” Ratterman’s daughter, Briana Ratterman, 29, said this afternoon.
“We’re keeping hope. … We’ve got a team on the ground.”
That team, from the humanitarian relief organization Knightsbridge International (KBI), includes four doctors and a Marine reservist, Briana Ratterman said this afternoon.
She said her father was last with his friend and colleague Herbert Kanzki of Green Energy Solutions in the Hotel Montana. Kanzki has worked with Walt Ratterman in health clinics in Haiti.
Walt Ratterman was visiting Haiti to check on a solar-power project. He is co-founder of Sun Energy Power International, a Washougal-based non-profit agency that provides help with renewal energy systems in remote rural parts of the world.
Briana Ratterman said as of about 1 p.m. “They (the KBI team) are try to get past the (Dominican Republic) border.”
She is communicating with them via satellite telephone.
She said the team is traveling with a group from Lynn University of Florida.
Briana Ratterman said people can keep up with the effort to find Walt Ratterman at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Walt-Ratterman-Haiti-Mission/275563896042
