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Retired High-Tech Engineer Finds Purpose Helping People Recover from Disasters
By Patricia Griffiths, Red Cross Volunteer This summer, thousands of Red Cross volunteers across the country, like Terry Nefcy, packed a suitcase and traveled to different states to support people […]
The Red Cross Finds New Ways to Provide Disaster Support During COVID-19
Story by Patricia Griffiths / Red Cross Cascades Even a telecommunication engineer struggles with how to pack a hug into a phone call. Carl Nelson, a retired telecommunication engineer and […]
Volunteer Shauna Garofolo Answers When Emergencies Call
Story by Dori Cooper/Red Cross Cascades Region Red Cross volunteers are essential to the successful operation of the Red Cross. In fact, the organization is 90 percent led by volunteers. […]
Why I Help: Phil Gonzales
Phil Gonzales is tough. After 50 years working for car dealerships in southern Oregon, the first thing he did in his “retirement” was try out for Survivor. Though he didn’t […]
” You Just Never Know When Someone’s Going Into Labor On Your Back Seat.”
Yep, that’s what I heard from one of our disaster volunteers who responded to a housefire that took an unusual twist. Patty was on the scene after the firefighers were […]
Disaster Response Update
September 29: Disaster volunteers responded to a single family house fire in Oregon City. A family of six adults and one child were displaced, with one adult hospitalized for smoke […]
Family Experiences Second Fire; Thanks Red Cross
Can you imagine the trauma of losing a loved one in a fire? Now…imagine having ANOTHER fire in your home, just 10 years later. How would you react? This is […]
It’s not just in the Portland area…
I just saw this article and had to post it. Apparently it’s not just our Chapter that has been responding to an unusual amount of house fires. The Register-Guard reports 30 house […]