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An update on the Red Cross’ use of social media during emergencies like Hurricane Irene.
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First Responder Takes Refuge at Red Cross Shelter
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 …
The game plan had changed
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 …
I just wanted to help
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 …
Don’t mess with Mother Nature
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 …
They welcomed us with open arms
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 …
I shouldn’t stay…
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 …