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After Heroic Escape, Red Cross Shelter and Music Provide Comfort
Originally appeared on the Red Cross Gold Country Region blog. It might seem that Joe Avila doesn’t have a lot to be grateful for, after losing everything he owned — …
Camp Fire: Conflicting Emotions Are Normal After A Disaster
This originally appeared on the Red Cross Capital Crosswords blog. Photos by Carl Manning. After the Camp Fire swept through his hometown of Magalia, California, Ken Kupstas wasn’t sure what …
California Wildfires: Your Top Questions Answered
The Camp, Woolsey and Hill Fires have devastated thousands of acres in parts of northern and southern California, and they’re still raging. To date, they’ve forced tens of thousands of …
Operation Oroville Dam: Update from the Shelters
With contributions by Maggie Buckenmayer Last Sunday, roughly 180,000 residents of Oroville, California, and surrounding areas were given an evacuation order after officials spotted severe erosion on the emergency spillway …
Ryan Yamane: Telling the Stories of Wildfire Survivors
Post written by Red Cross mental health worker Ryan Yamane. Ryan also currently represents the 37th State House District in the Hawaii House of Representatives. On June 27, I turned on the …
Communities Come Together in the Face of Devastating Fires
Red Cross worker, Jordan Scott, does some coloring with 8 year old April Vazquez, at the Red Cross shelter in Kelseyville, CA. April and her family evacuated their home due …
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 …
An Unexpected Consequence of Disaster Planning
That’s a pretty downer blog title, right? With the two moderate earthquakes that hit Southern California this in the past few weeks, I was asked to write a blog post …
Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head!
I live in Southern California. If you’ve been locked in by snow for the past two months, you may not know this, but we’re suffering from the exact opposite problem …