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Check Out The Rodeo Photos!

Sep 29, 2008

Yee-haw! You can now see all the photos from the 2008 Northwest Emergency Response Team Rodeo on our Flickr page!What’s the rodeo, pardner? It’s a drill involving 200 CERT and […]

Selling Lemonade for the Red Cross

Sep 29, 2008

While most kids have packed away their lemonade stands for the summer, Luke Fraiser, Jacob Kassman and Emily Kassman are still going strong. The three are residents of Katy, Texas, […]

Some Volunteer Appreciation

Sep 29, 2008

If you’ve been following the numbers on the blog (off to your right), you’ll see that we’re at about 186 Oregon deployments related to Hurricane Season 2008. Of those, about […]

DISASTER ACTION TEAM RESPONDS

Sep 29, 2008

The DAT did respond to a Single Family Fire late night Saturday, 27 Sept 08, in NE Portland. Insured homeowners, family of 2 adults and 2 children, had a garage […]

Manzanita Thinks Preparedness Is Manza-Neato

Sep 26, 2008

[I’m blogging this for Thomas since I don’t think he has internet access right now.] Okay, so I said that Thomas is at an international conference in San Jose, but […]

What Does The Red Cross Think About Global Climate Change?

Sep 26, 2008

Right now our CEO, Thomas, is in San Jose at a meeting of representatives from American Red Cross Chapters and from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) exploring […]

“I just had a feeling that I wanted to do something.”

Sep 26, 2008

You know I’ve got a soft-spot for teens with big hearts. And Raymond McGee just made my day. Raymond is a 13-year-old hurricane evacuee who didn’t want to just receive […]

Roadblock Wrap-up

Sep 25, 2008

Wondering how last week’s Red Cross Roadblock went? Beth Kanter – of the highly popular social media blog, “Beth’s Blog” – got the detailed scoop from the Social Media Roadblock […]

Hurricane Angel

Sep 25, 2008

Wow. I just listened to this song by Ellis Paul.  It’s soulful, folk-driven, and pretty intense. I think you’ll recognize from the lyrics that it was written just after Hurricane […]

Ike Will Get No Sympathy From Us!

Sep 25, 2008

[It must be game week around here. Seems like all I’ve been blogging about are games!] I’ve never played Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but apparently there is this character in […]