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The American Red Cross is Ready for Wildfires, Are You?

‘Because I can.’ Oregon Blood Donor Hits 100 Gallon Milestone

“I Wasn’t Expecting It, and It Was Nice”: Red Cross and Partners Bring Hope to Burdoin Fire Survivors

Katrina in the hospital bed awaiting blood.

Katrina Long Traded 50K Trail Run for a Hospital Bed After Sudden Health Scare Ahead of 50th Birthday

Five Years Strong: Julie Bolt’s Journey Sparked by Oregon’s 2020 Wildfires

From Tornadoes to Wildfires, Kat Thiede Explains Why She Keeps Volunteering with the Red Cross

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Red Cross Volunteers are Changed Forever After Deploying to Hurricanes Helene and Milton

It’s been more than a month since Hurricane Helene hit the Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee, shortly followed by Hurricane Milton who also packed a major punch.  The unprecedented […]

“I Lost Six of my People.” Maui Wildfire Survivor Opens Up To Red Cross Volunteer.

By Darrell Fuller Watch Darrell’s story here. I am a volunteer with the American Red Cross. I spent four weeks on the island of Maui responding to the wildfires there. […]

Red Cross Volunteers Reflect on Critical Role in Disaster Response

Olivia Wolf/Red Cross Cascades Region A four-alarm fire around downtown Portland displaced more than a dozen residents of an old apartment building the morning of Tuesday, May 16. The fire […]

Cascades Region volunteers sacrifice holidays with family to support those impacted by Kentucky tornadoes

Story by Dawn Johnson/Red Cross Cascades Region Nearly a month after an outbreak of deadly tornadoes cut through the heart of the Midwest and South in December 2021, Red Cross […]

A Year Later, Historic 2020 Fires Recall Memories of Love and Loss

Story by Harriet Vanderbilt / Red Cross Cascades Region One year ago, on Sept. 7, 2020, Mother Nature unleashed a catastrophic series of events upon thousands of Oregonians.   First, there […]

Bootleg Fire Showcases Importance of Collaboration During Disaster Response

If you walk into the Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team headquarters for Zone 1 of the Bootleg Wildfire you will find yourself in a sea of green pants […]

Klamath Tribes Delivers Key Community Support During Devastating Bootleg Wildfire

Story by Darrell Fuller/Red Cross Cascades Region Just three days into the massive Bootleg fire raging in Oregon, the Red Cross opened an evacuation shelter at the Klamath County Fairgrounds. […]

Red Cross Volunteer Supports Wildfire Response as own Home is Threatened

Story by Darrell Fuller/Red Cross Cascades Region Hank Nowak of Joliet, Montana (about 30 miles outside Billings), flew to Medford, Oregon on Saturday, July 10th, 2021 to serve as a Red Cross shelter […]

‘Leave now or you’ll die,’ How the Red Cross is Supporting those Impacted by the Bootleg Fire

Story by Darrell Fuller/Red Cross Cascades Region Tim McCarley is a retired sheriff’s deputy from Reno. He, and his bride Dee, moved to Oregon along with her adult son, David, to build their dream retirement home in the […]

Historic multi-day heatwave, pushes Cascades Region volunteers to adapt to yet another disaster like no other

Story by Sarah Cagann/Red Cross Cascades Region We saw the forecasts and read the headlines; a dangerous multi-day, triple-digit heatwave was coming to the Cascades Region. Yet it was still […]

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