For those with vacation plans on the Gulf Coast, the oil spill is understandably a cause for questions and concerns, and the Red Cross has some safety and health tips for people who are going to the area.
4/27/2010 - Southeast Spring Tornadoes - The Red Cross Responds
Nature’s most violent storms tore across Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, reducing homes to rubble and bringing down power lines leaving residents in the dark.
4/25/2010 - American Red Cross Chapters Continue to Respond to Damage
In the wake of deadly storms and tornadoes that devastated areas of Mississippi including Yazoo City, American Red Cross workers in Alabama are assisting storm victims in Marshall, Dekalb and Walker Counties with their immediate needs of shelter, food, emotional support and other necessities. Red Cross emergency response vehicles are providing meals in the affected areas as well as working with community partners to serve meals at stationary sites.
4/5/2010 - Tuscaloosa Red Cross to Send Caseworker to Boston Floods
The American Red Cross West Alabama Chapter is sending staff member Neil Hardin to assist with the disaster operation in Boston, MA. Hardin, who is a trained Red Cross caseworker, will help by directly working with flood victims.
3/10/2010 - American Red Cross Responds to 16-Unit Apartment Fire
Members of the Birmingham-Jefferson American Red Cross Disaster Action Team (DAT) responded to an apartment fire Tuesday night at 7720 SunRise Drive (Birmingham, 35210). Approximately 16 units were damaged (1 unit was vacant).
Record-setting cold temperatures which have frozen the upper Midwest are expected to move into the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and South over the next few days. Forecasters say temperatures in some areas could drop into the single digits.
