SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic — Bestselling author and award-winning journalist Mitch Albom said he was trapped in chaos-ridden Haiti and had to flee in the dead of night on a helicopter with nine others, including his wife. Albom, the author of the blockbuster book, “Tuesdays With Morrie,” said in an interview with NBC News’ Gabe Guiterrez that a visit to an orphanage he established in Haiti turned terrifying when prisoners were freed, setting off bedlam on the troubled island.
Albom said that, as he ran to the helicopter, “what was going through my head was ‘please don’t hear gunfire. And please don’t let anybody be filming this that can somehow trace it back to the location we were.’ . . I had this big lump in my chest that we were leaving our children and what’s going to happen to them.”” The helicopter experienced mechanical issues and had to land “in the middle of nowhere” in the Dominican Republic.
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