By Bill Fortune/American Red Cross Photo by Curtis Lovett/American Red Cross Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “Life’s most persistent question is: What are you doing for others?” Volunteer Warren Roh (R) shows a smoke alarm to 9 month old Reagen Landiss in Colorado Springs. On MLK Day, Americans across the country come together for […]
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 […]
“Just Routine, Really.” On Duty and Response with Red Cross Volunteers Story and Pictures: Ed O’Brien – Red Cross Public Affairs Volunteer On a cold mid-November afternoon, in a tightly packed mobile home park in Brighton, a small fire in a garden shed spread to two adjacent structures, rendering each trailer uninhabitable. This fire displaced […]
By Lisa Price Waltman/American Red Cross Years ago, for some reason my young son had replaced the phrase “Daylight Savings Time” with “Daily Savings Time” and in our home, it has remained just that. When I thought about his unintentionally jumbled words I realized he actually had a great point. Are we really “saving” daylight […]
By Melody Storgaard On October 18, volunteers from the American Red Cross, Poudre Fire Authority and Hope Worldwide went door-to-door in a Fort Collins neighborhood surrounding Putnam Elementary School in an effort to save lives. The group of volunteers were targeting 139 homes that were selected due to higher risk of loss caused by home […]
A warm Saturday morning and Pueblo volunteers got an early start in their effort to canvas neighborhoods on the southeast side. The canvassing is part of an effort to provide free smoke alarms in areas that have had a history of fatalities caused by home fires. The Pueblo volunteers partnered with volunteers from Loaf’N Jug […]