By Jennifer Marsh Look out — there are some prepared kids in town! On Saturday, June 6, 35 children and their families gathered at the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Carson to learn from Red Cross volunteers and personnel about how to be prepared for an emergency through The Pillowcase Project. This presentation teaches children […]
By Patricia Billinger What is the Red Cross up to when we’re not responding to massive disasters? Let’s take a peek behind the curtain at what the Red Cross does #Allin1Day. Here’s a snapshot of what really happened on a single day last week in the Colorado & Wyoming Region: Wednesday, May 20 6:50 a.m. […]
Nearly 30 Red Cross volunteers and employees from 8 counties spent the weekend of May 15-17 training, practicing and reaching out to save lives in and around the Steamboat Springs area. Volunteers explain the importance of having an evacuation plan. The Red Cross Northwest Colorado Disaster Academy drew 27 Red Cross staff and trained them […]
By Bill Fortune/American Red Cross People say that practice makes perfect and if there ever was an organization that believed in that motto is the American Red Cross. Training our volunteers through small and large scale exercises keeps them in top shape and keeps them confident in their skills. Dan Chavez organizes lunch for shelter […]
Story and photos by Bill Fortune/American Red Cross Morning clouds and rain, after a couple of days with thunderstorms, would raise concern from anyone living in Colorado, especially along the Colorado Front Range. After the flash floods of 2013 and a dozen or more threatening days in 2014 it is easy to see how thunder […]
Red Cross volunteer Roger Bram directs the Emergency Response Vehicle for the Palmer Park neighborhood evacuation exercise in Colorado Springs. Photo credit American Red Cross Story by Leila Roch, American Red Cross On Saturday morning, many residents in the Palmer Park neighborhood received a knock on their door and a reverse 911 phone call from […]
(Correction: an earlier version of this blog reflected the date of the Lunch and Learn as Wednesday, April 22. It is actually Tuesday, April 21.) For those who lived through the Vietnam War, the phrase “Black April” is loaded with complex meaning. It was in April, 40 years ago, when Saigon fell, and the American […]
by Patricia Billinger Much has been written about today’s “culture of being busy.” With tight work schedules, kids’ activities, social engagements and, of course, the lure of Colorado’s outdoors, people have a lot of priorities battling for their time. That’s why it’s especially meaningful for us at the American Red Cross to honor and thank […]
As 2014 comes to an end, we took a moment to read back through the year and select our top 14 stories. Here they are, grouped by topic rather than in order of importance: 2013 Colorado Flood Recovery Effort Flood Survivors: ‘It’s Like Beginning Again.Alma and her family were awoken at 3 a.m. by a […]
Have you ever heard of a “three dog night”? No, not the musical group from the 70s but stories from surviving extreme cold. Back in the day during extreme cold people would allow their dogs to sleep in bed with them and the colder it got the more dogs they needed. A really, really cold […]