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This post was written by Connie Harvey, Director, Aquatics Centennial Initiatives. As a water safety instructor, nothing makes my day more than seeing a child who used to be afraid of …
Initiation: The Bridge
This post was written by Melanie Pipkin Kozel, a member of the American Red Cross media team. After nearly three years with the American Red Cross, I have been …
QUIZ: Do You Actually Know How to Swim?
For the past 100 years, we’ve been helping millions of kids, teens and adults learn how to swim and become lifeguards and instructors. This year, the American Red Cross launched …
Rip Currents – What Lies Beneath
By Dr. Peter G. Wernicki As Hurricane Cristobal moves slowly up the Atlantic and Hurricane Marie tears through the Pacific, they are bringing high surf to vacation spots along both …
Sometimes Heroes Wear Crowns
By Scott E. Toncray, APR Hayley Lewis, 21, Miss Tennessee 2014 recently preformed lifesaving skills she learned from being an American Red Cross Certified Lifeguard. A fellow pageant contestant choked …
Technology: Disrupting Disaster Response since 1881
By Dom Tolli, Preparedness, Health and Safety Services Back in 1881, the American Red Cross used the telegraph for the first time to transmit disaster information during a forest fire …
Is there a Shark in Your Pool?
By: Angela Beale, Ph.D. American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council As a mother of four young children and an aquatics education specialist, I know first-hand that there’s nothing kids love …
A Quick Swimming Lesson
By: Connie Harvey, Director American Red Cross Aquatics Centennial Program If you watch people around a pool, most seem to be comfortable around the water. If you ask them about …
You Have 5 Minutes to Evacuate…
Imagine this scenario… You look outside your house and see this: Within two minutes, a firetruck is rolling down your street announcing a mandatory evacuation for the area and you …