As people turn their clocks back this weekend for the end of daylight-saving time, the American Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming asks everyone to also test their smoke alarms. “Home fires are our community’s most frequent disaster, and we ask everyone to ‘turn and test’ this weekend to help protect your family,” said Gino […]
Denver, Thursday, October 31, 2019 – The American Red Cross of Colorado & Wyoming is sending disaster workers to help those affected by the wildfires in California. As of Thursday, October 31, 2019, The following disaster workers have been deployed to support the Red Cross response for the Kincade Fire in northern California. A typical […]
Story and photos by Sophi Conti/American Red Cross The Tiffany Circle Society of Women Leaders hosted the inaugural Service to the Armed Forces Baby Shower at the new Denver Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital on Saturday, August 17th. Did you know that 175 babies are born in the Colorado VA system annually? To lighten the emotional […]
American Red Cross of Colorado & Wyoming – The month of September 2019 brought 51 calls for Red Cross disaster assistance and we were able to help 119 people begin their recovery across the two-state region. Most of the assistance requests were for home fires totaling 47 responses. September also brought national disasters that prompted […]
Additional Disaster Workers Deploying to Texas Updated: September 27, 2018 Five more disaster workers from the Colorado & Wyoming Region of the Red Cross have been deployed to the Texas Gulf Coast to support the recovery phase of our disaster response. Darlene Moore – a volunteer with the Red Cross of Western Colorado chapter will […]
Colorado & Wyoming Red Cross responded to 57 calls for help in August and assisted 172 People American Red Cross of Colorado & Wyoming – The month of August 2019 brought 58 calls for Red Cross disaster assistance and we were able to help 152 people across the two-state region begin their recovery. Most of […]
UPDATE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 More than 45 members of the American Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming have traveled east to support impacted and potentially impacted areas of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The Colorado and Wyoming region has also deployed three of its five Emergency Response Vehicles to provide food, water […]
American Red Cross of Colorado & Wyoming – The month of July 2019 brought 48 calls for Red Cross disaster assistance and we were able to help 152 people across the two-state region begin their recovery. Most of the assistance requests were for home fires totaling 40 responses. In addition to local disaster responses, we […]
American Red Cross of Colorado & Wyoming – During the month of June 2019, there were 44 calls for Red Cross disaster assistance and the Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming was able to help 175 people across the two-state region begin their recovery. Most of the assistance requests were for home fires totaling 36 […]
DENVER, CO, JUNE 20, 2019 – Some 51.2 million people live as refugees and internally displaced people around the world, forced to choose between safety and their family and the comforts of home. Of those, 46 percent are children under the age of 18. This World Refugee Day, June 20th, the American Red Cross of […]