Red Cross Youth volunteer Jerrika Walkup, 15, has been helping people at the Red Cross shelter in Joplin, Missouri after a massive tornado tore through the town last week. She …
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Observations from a Disaster Volunteer in Alabama
This post is written by Jim Prive, a loyal Red Cross volunteer who deployed to Alabama to assist with relief efforts for victims of the recent tornadoes.
What We’re Reading: Save a Life edition
What do kids, twitter, video games, and ultimate frisbee players have in common?
Down the Street and Around the World
While the American Red Cross has been busy responding to tornadoes, flooding and wildfires across the United States, our disaster management experts have also been working around the world to help other communities respond to and recover from major disasters.
What We’re Reading
Dear Alabama, HelpWriteNow, Go kit, and country stars (two) stepping up
What We’re Reading (and watching, and listening to)
Tactical Sammich, Sending a lifeline from 1885, Emergency alerts for your cell, Uniting for Japan and the South.
Red Cross CSI Units
Nurse and Red Cross volunteer Sue Hasmiller shares an intimate account of her service in Alabama.
Pretty Bad Things
An insider’s look at the response in Alabama from nurse and Red Cross volunteer Sue Hasmiller.
Duty Calls
I have worked there for 14 years and in that time have spent time away during 9/11, Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami, the four hurricanes that hit Florida at the same time, hurricane Floyd in NJ, and now this monster in Alabama that has no name. I don’t serve this way often, but every once in a while there is something so significant that I can’t ignore it.