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Month: December 2012

Military Support

Deployment Prep 2: CRC at Ft. Benning

by Gaby Skovira December 27, 2012January 1, 2013

After settling in at the CRC (CONUS Replacement Center) at Ft. Benning, we prepared ourselves for the week to come. Each day, the schedule was be posted outside the main …

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Health & Safety

Holiday House Fires – Are You Prepared?

by Gloria Huang December 27, 2012September 8, 2016

As we celebrated Christmas this week, I kept one eye on the candles that were lit around the house and worried every time I heard sirens rushing by my neighborhood …

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History, Holiday

From the Archives: Christmas Seals and Combating Tuberculosis

by Susan Watson December 24, 2012January 5, 2013

In the early twentieth century, the American Red Cross played a role in the fight against tuberculosis with Christmas seals. Before the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, tuberculosis or …

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Disaster

A Volunteer Story – Helping in the Wake of Sandy

by Gloria Huang December 21, 2012March 2, 2013

Editor’s note: This post is written by Cassie Alexander, a Red Cross volunteer who is also a registered nurse. She recounts her experience during Sandy. The post is cross-posted with …

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International

“Get down! Get down! You are now Prisoners of War!”

by Niki Clark December 20, 2012December 28, 2012

By Jillian Kaplan, Central New York Region IHL Team Mentor Two Americorps volunteers, Heather Powell and Kaelyn Madden, burst into the room covered in camouflage, holding neon water guns and …

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Disaster

Our Biggest Disaster Responses of 2012

by Gloria Huang December 19, 2012December 19, 2012

This year, we handled several large scale disasters, while at the same time continuing to respond to hundreds of house fires every single day. This infographic helps give an idea …

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Health & Safety

Our Top 10 Preparedness Tips of 2012: #6-10

by Kristiana Almeida December 18, 2012September 8, 2016

Continuing from yesterday’s list of preparedness tips, I’m happy to bring you tips #6-10….most of which are based on personal experience. See tips #1-5 here. Tip #6: Know Your Escape …

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Health & Safety

Our Top 10 Preparedness Tips of 2012

by Kristiana Almeida December 17, 2012September 8, 2016

It’s that time of the year again, when people are round up the “Top 10 This” or “Top 50 That” lists. Because it’s been such a busy year, I decided …

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Disaster

Resiliency in the Aftermath of a Shooting

by Gloria Huang December 17, 2012December 28, 2012

The news about the shooting in Sandy Hook hit me like a sack of bricks when I found out last Friday. My colleagues got to work quickly to find out …

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Disaster

A Walk through Brooklyn – A Realization of New York’s Resiliency

by Gloria Huang December 13, 2012

This blog post was written by Eric Kilz, a Red Crosser deployed to help with Sandy relief efforts in New York. Breezy Point, a quiet picturesque neighborhood located on a …

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