This Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up is courtesy of Kate Swartz, MPH from Cross Blog: Award-winning Red Cross news and views from Oregon and beyond Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the [...]
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An update on the Red Cross’ use of social media during emergencies like Hurricane Irene.
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James Gruenfelder wraps up in a blanket and reads a novel inside the American Red Cross shelter at the Indian River High School in Dagsboro, Delaware. Gruenfelder is a Suffock County, New York police lieutenant who normally would be called to assist with disaster response for Hurricane Irene. Instead, Gruenfelder, his a wife, two children [...]
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When the Austin Prep football team goes to another school – it’s usually for a Friday night game. But less than 24 hours before Irene is expected to attack the Cape Cod coast, the cougars aren’t here to huddle, they’re in the Yarmouth High School gym to hunker down. All 52 players came to the American Red Cross shelter after being [...]
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The Alvarez family watched weather reports this past week knowing what a hurricane like Irene meant for them: evacuation. The family lives in mobile home community in Wilson, NC. When the rain started falling, they made the decision to leave their home and head to the nearest Red Cross shelter. Upon arriving at the shelter, [...]
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Red Crosser Laureen Martinez had the pleasure of meeting one of our volunteers today who has lived through his share of hurricanes. This is his story. 80-year-old Ted Smith says he’ll never be unprepared for a disaster again. He remembers the day a category 3 hurricane hit his unsuspecting community of Cape Cod. “I was [...]
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Red Crosser Kate Meier is currently deployed to help with Hurricane Irene in North Carolina. This is a story of a couple she met this morning at one of our shelters. Jennie and Robert Culpepper sought refuge in an American Red Cross shelter as the outer rings of Hurricane Irene were already dropping rain on [...]
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Florence Topping cradled her sleeping great-grandson, Tyler, in her lap and gazed calmly across the American Red Cross shelter in a church gymnasium in Rocky Mount, N.C., Friday. Nearby, church members entertained her other two great-grandchildren, Ny’Mir and Miricah, with a story and coloring books. “When they said we ought to evacuate, I thought I [...]
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