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 […]

News Release from American Red Cross – Cascades Region Date: August 5th, 2016 9:33 AM Disaster responders with the American Red Cross Cascades Region are assisting approximately 50 people displaced […]

Kat Coker has been helping others since 1986. Inspired to volunteer by a high school teacher, she was active in supporting blood drives. She also was inspired by a fellow […]

Are you prepared to live on only the contents of your disaster preparedness kit following a 9.0 Cascadia earthquake or other disaster? Test your readiness by camping out in your […]

On Saturday morning, June 18, Tracy Belanger did what he does most every morning.  He got up, got ready for work at the Roseburg Fred Meyer where he is an […]