Woolley Home; Safe With Family

By Tak Landrockt.landrock@krdo.com

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COLORADO SPRINGS – A little more than a week after being trapped in the Haitian earthquake, Dan Woolley is back home in Colorado. His plane landed Tuesday night in Denver to a crowd of family and friends holding signs welcoming him home.

Woolley came off the plane in a wheelchair, still recovering from his injures.

He was inside an elevator when the earthquake struck in Haiti; for more than 60 hours he waited for help. “I begged God. You know, God, please bring me back to my wife and my boys and I felt like God wasn’t done with what he’d given me yet,” says Woolley.

He told a crowd of reporters, including NEWSCHANNEL 13’s Lindsay Watts, that he is healing well and that he is glad to see his wife and boys.

Woolley suffered a head injury and a broken foot; while trapped he wrote good-bye notes to his sons. After his rescue he was taken to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, where his wife later joined him.

Tuesday night was the first time he was able to see his sons since he left for his trip to Haiti.

Woolley was in Haiti, working on a documentary for Compassion International. His friend and colleague, Dave Hames remains missing and there is still hope he’ll be found.

“One moment we were walking up to our hotel room and the next moment, just everything exploded and it felt like the ground was exploding around us and the walls started falling and he (Hames) yelled, ‘It’s an earthquake,’ and I looked for some place safe to go but there was no place safe and so we just each lunged in a direction and then all of a sudden just darkness,” Woolley says.

Stay with krdo.com and NEWSCHANNEL 13 for more on this homecoming.