RED CROSS HOLDS FREE EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS PRESENTATIONS ACROSS OREGON THIS FALL September is National Preparedness Month and the American Red Cross is encouraging preparedness by kicking off a series of […]

August 30, 2016 – 7:50 p.m. Disaster responders with the American Red Cross Cascades Region are assisting individuals and families evacuated by a wildfire near Selma, Oregon. The Red Cross […]

The magnitude of the devastation in Louisiana is hard to fathom. More than 110,000 homes have been damaged in and around Baton Rouge. At the peak of the flooding, more […]

Local Red Cross Sends Eight Responders to Help With California Wildfires; Others Continue to Help in Louisiana PORTLAND, Ore., August 18, 2016 — The American Red Cross Cascades Region (Oregon […]

As flood waters rise in Louisiana, the situation has quickly become the worst disaster since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The scene is chaotic – roads are wiped out and communication […]

Local Red Cross Continues to Send Disaster Responders to Louisiana; 17 Volunteers Deploy to Aid Massive Relief Effort PORTLAND, Ore., August 16, 2016 — The American Red Cross Cascades Region […]

Local Red Cross Sends 17 Disaster Responders to Louisiana to Help with Worst Disaster Since Superstorm Sandy Seventeen Red Cross disaster responders from Oregon and Southwest Washington deploy to Louisiana to […]

The number one disaster threat to homes and families isn’t a dreaded Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.  It’s not torrential rains and massive flooding.  It’s not even a colossal freeway pileup.  […]

We’re Ready: from the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness to the Oregon Coast Tsunami Zone to a Portland Backyard Debra and Ben: Prepared not Scared – Debra Slade and her son, Ben were […]

PORTLAND, OR, August 3, 2016 – Between July 1 and July 31, the local Red Cross responded to 83 disasters (largely home fires and wildfires) and helped to address the […]