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LOST producers are auctioning props from the show including this handy DHARMA initiative first aid kit. Of course if you want a modern day first aid kit so you can be ready for emergencies – whether it’s a smoke monster or a skateboard scrape – please visit our store and stock up.

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From the American People to the American People

Posted on May 14th, 2010 by Gloria Huang

Below is a blog entry that Kristin Claes, a Red Cross worker from the Greater Chicago Area Chapter, wrote during her deployment to Tennessee. We are sharing it with you in hopes that it will help demonstrate how real of an impact your support and donations have on the ground. We drove into the Delray [...]

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How did you survive?

Posted on May 14th, 2010 by Wendy Harman

Let me take a closer look. Watch your step. There’s a tree in the hallway.

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My House Fell Down

Posted on May 13th, 2010 by Wendy Harman

Two years ago, on May 12, 2008, a powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan province in western China, killing more than 87,000 people and destroying 5 million houses. The American Red Cross provided 200 students in Guangyuan district with disposable cameras to document their lives now.

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It’s All There: Disaster Online Newsroom

Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Wendy Harman

Just subscribe to the Disaster Online Newsroom. It’s all there out in the open. We keep it updated in as close to real time as we possibly can.

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I Run This

Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Wendy Harman

We’ve teamed up with the TNT show HawthoRNE (starring Jada Pinkett Smith) this summer on their “I Run This” Wellness tour. Come on out and meet a modern day Red Cross nurse

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