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Santa Barbara County Chapter’s Roy Dugger responds to yesterday’s earthquake with a message of preparedness on KCOY CBS 12.
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Hurricane Dolly will be thrashing ashore in South Texas over the next few hours. The Red Cross has been watching her for many days now and has mobilized supplies and volunteers to be ready to respond to those affected by her.
>> Red Cross Press Release for Dolly
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As part of John Solomon’s continuing series, “What should we tell the public?” he captured our own Senior Vice President of Preparedness and Response Joe Becker in a 2nd minute of advice:

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If you’re paying attention to the news you’ve probably heard about the Red Cross emblem’s role in freeing FARC rebels in Colombia on July 2.
We thought it might be confusing for the average non Red Crosser (and even most Red Crossers) to understand the roles of the various members of the international Red Cross family.
The following […]

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Back by popular demand - National Youth Council members Mat Morgan and Pat West demonstrate the value of being Red Cross Ready and trained.

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Straight from Balad, Iraq, please welcome dispatch #3 from Maryl Neff:

The day-to-day life here has become predictable rather quickly. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s good to get into a routine, especially since I’m working the night shift.
I need to remain cognizant of when to go to bed so I can be […]

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National Youth Council members Pat West and Mat Morgan sent me an email last week explaining the following video they created as a recruitment tool for youth volunteers.
>> See all of them (so far - we’ll be putting them to work on more soon) 

What do you think?
If you have a camera and an idea, why […]

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The illustrious (and prepared!) John Solomon of In Case of Emergency, Read Blog and NPR’s On the Media came by yesterday to interview our own Senior Vice President for Preparedness & Response, Joe Becker, as part of his series, “What Should We Tell the Public?”
We’d like to thank John for his continued support of the Red […]

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As part of the Red Cross Service to Armed Forces, we deploy small groups of brave souls every few months.
The latest crew left headquarters last week for Fort Benning. They’re now en route to their final destinations, but before they left Maryl Neff sent in these pictures and her thoughts before leaving the US:

Happy 4th of July!
SAF […]

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Kurt Warner (hope he’s not upset that I called baseball the perfect game yesterday) hails from Cedar Rapids, IA.
You remember the massive flooding and tornadoes that hit that area of the country a few weeks ago, right? 
Well, Kurt is a former Celebrity Cabinet Member and was so moved by the devastation there that he called […]

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