Missionary Volunteer Recounts Terrifying Moments After Brussels Attack
ORANGE COUNTY (CBSLA.com) — A group of Orange County missionary volunteers found themselves in the center of the terror attacks in Brussels.
Wednesday night, the group from the Christian non-profit Containers of Hope thanked everyone for their prayers.
"We have had an outpouring of thousands of people that we don't know, that we never met," said Jana Williams.
Her group based in Brea was on its way to Liberia to bring Ebola orphans backpacks and school supplies when a lay-over in Brussels landed them in the center of the terror bombings at the airport.
"A worker came down the corridor screaming, 'Evacuate immediately!' He was panicked, you could hear it in his voice so everybody got up immediately and ran," she said.
The group was in a separate terminal from the airport departure area where the blasts killed 11 people.
Williams says after dozens of ambulances transported the injured, the missionary volunteers were loaded onto buses and escorted by police to a massive shelter where they spent the night on cots among 1,500 other airport evacuees.
For her safety, Williams wouldn't disclose her location but told CBS2 via FaceTime that the volunteers are shaken but safely out of Brussels. They will continue on their mission to Liberia Thursday.
"We wouldn't let a terrorist group take us down," she said.