“Holiday Mail for Heroes” to Deliver One Million Cards to Service Members...

The American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes Inc. are teaming up to send holiday cards to service men and women in the United States and around the world. From Tuesday, November 11 until Wednesday, December 10, the public...

Yay!

Sacramento, CA residents Tina Reynolds and Kate Moore were legally married during a special ceremony at the Crest Theater on Oct 12, 2008. On Nov. 4, California residents will be asked to vote on Proposition 8, a...

Sacramento Grass Fire fanned by Winds

A two-alarm grass fire in East Sacramento along the American River parkway had crews scrambling to contain the wind-driven fire. Today, around 4pm Sat. Oct 11 I was driving in the general area of the fire when I...

Red Cross readies for Ike

I am in the Sacramento, CA chapter of the Red Cross, poised to send volunteers to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Just a week ago I returned from Alexandria, LA as a volunteer where we helped keep evacuees...

Red Cross Supports California Wildfire Victims

The American Red Cross is mobilizing shelter workers, mobile feeding vans and supplies to provide relief to those affected by the fires. Shilpika Das, Staff Writer, RedCross.org Tuesday, October 23, 2007 —...

Ford Fire near Billings, MT; Red Flag Warning

 source | Incident Information System SummaryFirefighters battling the Ford Fire, in the Emerald Hills subdivision, are contending with high winds and temperatures today (20 August), as a Red Flag Warning...

Evacuation Warning: south of Lompoc, CA

SummaryALERT !.....Updated 8/20/07 6:20pm At 2:28pm Monday the 20th of August a fire was reported near the Cemetary south of the City of Lompoc (approximate lat 34 37.758, lon 120 26.709). This fire was initially...

How to Support the Relief Efforts

Donate to the Disaster Relief Fund All American Red Cross disaster assistance is free, made possible by voluntary donations of time and money from the American...

Providing Safe and Well Information

If you have been affected by a disaster, the American Red Cross Safe and Well Website  provides a way for you to register yourself as “safe and well.”Please go to ---...

Hurricane Dean Threatens Mexican Coast

Red Cross encourages families to use Safe and Well as people evacuate resort areas National Headquarters 2025 E Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20006 www.redcross.org Contact: Public Affairs...

Red Cross Response to Hurricane Dean

Overview After battering Jamaica Sunday night, Hurricane Dean is continuing on a westward to west-northwestward track and is projected to make landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico early...

Our city is destroyed, says Mayor Juan Mendoza

More than 16,000 homes are lost in the 8.0 temblor. The mayor of coastal Pisco says, 'Our city is destroyed.' source | Los Angeles Times The death toll in a massive earthquake that battered Peru's Pacific coast...

Red Cross sets up shelters in Winona, St. Charles Minnesota

WINONA, Minn. - The Red Cross has set up shelters at Saint Mary's University in Winona and St. Charles High School after flooding left hundreds without power and shelter. The St. Mary's shelter is reporting over 250...

Bush Out Front of Hurricane Dean

source | DEB RIECHMANN/Associated Press CRAWFORD,Texas  President Bush, who was criticized for a slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, took a pre-emptive strike Saturday against Hurricane Dean blowing...

Tahoe fire razes 5 homes

story | Deb Kollars & Bobby Caina Calvan - Sacramento BeeIn an unsettling echo of June's Angora fire, a second summer wildfire broke out in an urbanized area near the shores of Lake Tahoe on Saturday, destroying...
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