American Red Cross Disaster Newsroom
Disaster Alert Louisiana - A severe storm with tornado activity destroyed homes, damaged others, prompted evacuations and left thousands of residents without power in Caddo and DeSoto Parishes on Thursday. The Northwest...Read more...
Family homeless after fire near Shubenacadie
Mother and two boys escape fire in mobile home Friday morning There's nothing left of the home after the early morning fire. (CBC) Two boys were sent to hospital to check for smoke inhalation after escaping their burning home...Read more...
Fire damages two-story bungalow
Investigators were trying to determine what caused a two-story home at 1605 Taft Ave. NE to catch fire Thursday. The blaze, which firefighters were called to just after 8 p.m., started in the kitchen. No one was hurt. “It’s all...Read more...
Paraguay: Paraguay – Annual Report 2012 (MAAPY001)
Source: IFRC Country: Paraguay Overview The effects of climate change are showing their impact on Paraguay. According to experts, the drought and floods that hit the region of Chaco, within a short period of time, is a example...Read more...
Gambia: Kerewan Red Cross Link Cleans Public Places in NBR
The Finance Director of Kerewan Area Council has lauded the efforts of Kerewan link of the Red Cross Society for complementing the efforts of the Council in carrying out cleansing exercise in Kerr Pateh Koreh, Kerewan Health...Read more...
Small tornado hits trailer park in Ada
Small tornado hits trailer park in Ada ADA, OK -- Dustin Ballard was in a mobile home with his girlfriend, Denise Burns, and her family when high winds came through and ripped off the wall and roof of their home. "All this...Read more...
Aftermaths and Consequences of War: What Happens When the Troops Leave?
The Director of Operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Pierre Krahenbuhl will present key post-conflict humanitarian concerns and challenges as well as look ahead to the withdrawal of armed forces...Read more...
Scottish News: Nightingale award for aid worker
A British aid worker killed in Pakistan has been honoured with a posthumous award in recognition of his humanitarian work. Khalil Dale, 60, was abducted at gunpoint in January last year while working with the International...Read more...
Lee County kicks off 100 day campaign to house veterans
At the beginning of May, the Lee County Homeless Coalition, in partnership with the Lee County Department of Human Services, The Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers, Veterans Affairs, American Red Cross and the American...Read more...
GM Foundation pledges $500,000 to help Texas tornado victims
DETROIT — The General Motors Foundation is pledging $500,000 to Habitat for Humanity to help victims of the recent tornadoes in five Texas counties. The funds will be used to help restore neighborhoods devastated by Wednesday’s...Read more...
UnitedHealth Group Acts to Support Texans Affected by Tornadoes
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and its benefits and services businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, are taking immediate action to help people living in the North Texas counties affected by the recent spate of deadly...Read more...
FIRE ON THE COLDSTREAM RD.
A woman and her two boys were taken to hospital Friday morning to be checked out after a fire on the Coldstream Rd. The pre-dawn balze gutted their mobile home. The Red Cross says the family will be staying friends for now....Read more...
Central city blaze leaves 4 homeless
A house fire in central Toledo early today has left four people, including three children, homeless, authorities said. There were no reported injuries, according to the Toledo fire department. Amanda Aldrich, a spokesman for...Read more...
Sports Roundup
Swim classes offered at SPB ST. PETE BEACH - The St. Pete Beach Aquatic Center, 7701 Boca Ciega Drive, is accepting registration for swimming classes through the American Red Cross. The classes, for all ages, will teach proper...Read more...
Red Cross raises $22 million for Lushan quake
2013-05-18 09:04 Xinhua Web Editor: Mo Hong'e comment The headquarters of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has received 135 million yuan (22 million U.S. dollars) in donations for Lushan earthquake victims, according to a...Read more...
A Second Evaluation
Dimas Castellanos Posted on May 17, 2013 On May 1 the government of Cuba was the subject for the second time of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a tool of the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations responsible for...Read more...
Community Invitation - Red Cross Courses
Huge thanks to parent, Chantale , for the heads up about these great Red Cross courses being offered in our neighbourhood. The PAC received some great parent feedback after the last Home Alone Course Chantale offered. The kids...Read more...
Building Collapses In Umuahia, Abia Killing Seven
0 Comments Article Rating:0 | Read: 1 Abuja - Seven people were killed when a building under construction collapsed in Umuahia in the Abia state capital. Efforts by the Red Cross Society and other rescue operations are on-going...Read more...
Family's Red Cross debit card refused
Family members who lost their home and all of their belongings to a fire claim that Walmart refused to accept their Red Cross debit card when they tried to buy supplies. The family told 10News a Walmart in El Cajon...Read more...
WFP and OCHA Educate On Humanitarian Assistance
The National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Attention (SINAPRED) of Nicaragua, government institutions, the United Nations Emergency Technical Team (UNETE), participated in a Category 5 Hurricane simulation with...Read more...
Penasquitos woman is offering pet CPR training
By Emily Sorensen Rancho Penasquitos resident Jennifer Taylor just wants everyone to know how to save their pet’s life. Pet CPR trainer Jennifer Taylor with her dog Brezzi. “Everyone should know pet CPR,” said Taylor, who owns...Read more...
Helga's Diary
Helga Weiss enjoys a happy, well-nurtured childhood in Prague. Loved by family and many close friends, the decade of the 1930s is closing with promise and excitement. Then, in 1939, Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia and...Read more...
Talking Points: Notable quotes from the week in news
“It’s stunning to seewhat Mother Nature didhere.” — Red Cross spokeswoman Anita foster, in tornado-ravaged Granbury (dallasnews.com, Thursday) “It was like a blenderout here. Metal, bricks, wood, everything was just spinning.”...Read more...
Son of disappeared Arab in Mali also arrested
BAMAKO, Mali -; Relatives say Mohamed Ould Ali, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, has been arrested in Mali's capital. He had been attempting to sue the Malian military for his father's recent ...Read more...
Yemen: ICRC confirms safe return of staff members
Three staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who had been held since the beginning of the week by armed individuals in the vicinity of Ja’ar, in Abyan governorate, are now safely back with their...Read more...
Guinea: Army Medical Corps Boosts Capacity to Treat Injured
Geneva/Conakry (ICRC) – Some 50 military doctors and nurses have just completed war-surgery training organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the army medical corps. The training took place at the...Read more...
Some in fire's path luckier than others
Contractors arriving to repair fire damage on Judy and Don Dalski's log home on County Road 111 near Menahga on Wednesday estimate the structure would have been destroyed if the plane dropping water on the wood-shingled roof...Read more...
Granbury group coordinates donations; Austin high schoolers head to Granbury
Group organizes donations for tornado victims The largest nonprofit group in Granbury will organize local donations for recovery from the twister that destroyed dozens of homes and killed at least six people, officials said...Read more...
IRCC workers kidnapped
ABYAN, May 15 — A Swiss man, a Kenyan national and a Yemeni translator working for the International Red Crescent Committee (IRCC) were kidnapped by alleged armed tribesmen on Monday in the Al-Maraqesha area in the Jaar...Read more...
Comment by 'GreenMarjorie34' on Haitians hold onto life as help mounts
Some time ago, I did need to buy a good house for my corporation but I did not have enough money and couldn't buy anything. Thank heaven my dude adviced to take the business loans from creditors. So, I did that and used to be...Read more...
