Dr. John Fontaine is a cardiologist and professor at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is originally from Haiti and has loved ones living in the capital city where the earthquake hit.
He hasn't been able to reach anyone over the phone to find out if they're OK, so he's following TV news coverage hoping to see something familiar.
But the images of destruction - bodies and people trapped - are difficult to watch, he says; especially when he doesn't know if his aunts are even alive.
"Knowing that they are elderly, they are not going to have much ability to move about and call out for help," Fontaine told Action News. "My worst fear is that this is a horrible way to die, if that's in fact, the case."
Still he's holding out hope.
He's also hoping for the best for a 9-year-old girl he sponsors through "World Vision."
"I started thinking, 'Where is she? What happened to her and her family?'"
As a doctor, he knows even if both she and his aunts made it out of the quake alive, surviving the next few days to weeks could be a struggle. They could face spreading infectious disease or illnesses from unclean water.
He hopes relief efforts get there quickly.
"I'm so accustomed to taking care of people I don't know so I want the best for those people too," Fontaine said.
