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9/1/2006 — One Year Later: Southeast Louisiana Red Cross Chapter Remembers and Regroups
With the ringing of bells and a few blurred eyes, Southeast Louisiana Red Cross Chapter employees, volunteers and supporters commemorated the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina outside of their former offices on Canal Street in New Orleans. The devastated building is still boarded up, so the gathering took place under a white tent in the back parking.
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9/1/2006 — Kuwait Donation Used to Shore Up Disaster Response along the Gulf
Fifteen sparkling new American Red Cross feeding trucks are now ready to bring nourishment and comfort to those in need this hurricane season, thanks to a $25 million donation from Kuwait.
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8/29/2006 — Hayes Family Weathers Storm’s Destruction with Continued Grace
Hundreds of Mississippians gathered along the shores of the Gulf Coast this past Sunday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Holding hands, they formed a line that they’d hope would stretch from Waveland, Miss., to past Biloxi, Miss. The proud residents talked of where they’d been a year before and how far they’d come.
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8/29/2006 — Program Helps Hurricane-Impacted Children
For kids whose lives were dramatically changed by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, Baker summer day camp was a place to go for 10 hours every weekday and be kids, away from cramped trailers and adults’ worries.
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8/28/2006 — Ensuring Katrina’s Young Survivors Bounce Back
Amya Cornin looks like any carefree first-grader who loves to play with…plastic bugs. At the school entrance, she bounces past her mother and two older brothers toward the family car, twisty braids held by colored hair-bobs buoying with each sprite step.
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8/28/2006 — Red Cross Training Prepares Leaders to Guide Disaster Response in Local Community
On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's one-year anniversary, more than 30 community leaders—invited by the Mississippi offices of the NAACP—attended a comprehensive, one-day American Red Cross training to prepare them to serve as Red Cross shelter managers.
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8/27/2006 — Restoring Homes and Hope along the Gulf Coast
By all accounts, you’d consider Jim Sullenger a soft-spoken man, but his work and presence in one Mississippi community speaks volumes.
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8/2/2006 — Living His Life with Kindness: One Volunteer’s Story
When Hurricane Katrina whipped through the Gulf Coast last August, leaving an unprecedented trail of destroyed homes and cities in its wake, Rev. Joe Hyun-Seung Yang was once again ready and willing to help, knowing that a much larger challenge lay ahead.
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7/21/2006 — Community Relations Liaisons: Filling a Pivotal Role in Red Cross Disaster Relief
Building on lessons from an initial pilot community relations program launched during last year’s hurricane season, the American Red Cross recently gathered employees and volunteers in Washington, D.C. to train as Community Relations Liaisons.
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6/27/2006 — Naylors, Helping Neighbors All Across the Country
It’s a car! It’s a train! No, it’s an ERV—an American Red Cross emergency response vehicle. Each year Red Cross ERVs, thanks to the superhuman efforts of their crews, deliver help and comfort to people in need.
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4/10/2006 — A Story of Her Own
The view from Phoebe Cantrell’s front porch had not changed much in her lifetime. For as long as she could remember, the same shade trees provided shelter from the sun for her family and the neighbors who often gathered at her Goodlettsville, Tenn., home. Several generations of her family hail from there – more than a century on the same patch of earth.
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4/5/2006 — New Hampshire Governor John Lynch Receives Red Cross Volunteer Award
Governor John Lynch has been awarded the National Chairman of Volunteers Award for Volunteer Excellence. The American Red Cross award recognizes Governor Lynch for his leadership, compassion and quick response in the wake of local and national disasters.
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3/21/2006 — What is a Red Cross Volunteer's Time Worth?
What is a volunteers time worth? It’s not just their willingness to work for no pay, their desire to perform a humanitarian service simply for the benefit of others. It’s something intangible, and invaluable.
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3/6/2006 — Red Cross Supports Shipboard Katrina Evacuees
During the six-month emergency phase following Hurricane Katrina, the American Red Cross provided clothes and supplies for New Orleans city workers living on docked ships made available by the Carnival Cruise Line.
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3/6/2006 — Mardi Gras is New Orleans’ spring tonic
The sights and smells of New Orleans after Katrina last September are forever burned into my memory, but they have been supplanted by festive crowds and parades for Mardi Gras.
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3/3/2006 — New Orleans Neighborhood Rebounds from Katrina’s Destruction
Alice Major always waves from her second story porch at the American Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) when it pulls up in front of her house every day.
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3/2/2006 — Crews still cooking, delivering meals in New Orleans
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, the American Red Cross is still on the scene and still meeting the needs of residents trying to rebuild in and around New Orleans.
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2/16/2006 — New Orleans Military Family Receives Special Gift
Born in New Orleans in April 2005 to Jennifer Knowles, a civilian working for the Army Corps of Engineers, and Nick, a member of the Louisiana Army National Guard who was stationed in Iraq, little Emma arrived just a few months ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
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2/15/2006 — Kitchen 44 Closes, Feeding Operations Continue
The haunting strains of “Amazing Grace” played by Red Cross volunteer Terry Cooney on his bagpipes filled the sanctuary of the Calvary Baptist Church in New Orleans as Red Cross and Southern Baptist volunteers from Kitchen 44 gathered for an emotional ceremony to close a major chapter in the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina disaster relief story.
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1/18/2006 — Operation Hope Teams Up with American Red Cross
Operation Hope, Inc. and the American Red Cross are pleased to be joining forces in an effort to provide financial advice and guidance to those individuals affected by disasters.
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1/11/2006 — From disasters emerge heartache, hope and humanity for a mother
The tragedy wrought by the Indian Ocean tsunami, which struck more than a dozen countries on Dec. 26, 2004, became a personal tragedy for Portland, Ore., native Christina Ankofska whose 36-year-old daughter, Angie Foust, was vacationing with her friend, Luke Scully, in Thailand when the tsunami destroyed the resort where they were staying.
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1/5/2006 — Red Cross Volunteer Strives to “Live Up to the Logo”
Candy Clark completed her American Red Cross training and was issued her Red Cross disaster relief vest. All that was left to do now was wait. Thinking her initial assignment would be to a springtime tornado or windstorm, she was surprised to get her first official Red Cross activation on the first day of 2006.
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12/28/2005 — Christmas on the Bayou, Post-Katrina
The big, beautiful log house is gone. The commercial orange grove has been destroyed. But the plot of family land along Highway 11 North was still where Jill Patten’s grown children chose to spend their first post-Katrina Christmas.
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12/7/2005 — “I’d Do It Again Tomorrow”
The impact of Hurricane Katrina was felt well beyond the boarders of Louisiana and Mississippi. The loss of life, property and sense of place touched us all, prompting an outpouring of prayers and donations from every corner of the country.
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11/29/2005 — Choosing to Give on Thanksgiving
More than 350 American Red Cross workers – 90 percent of them volunteers – decided to spend the Thanksgiving holiday on assignment with the Red Cross disaster relief operation in Mississippi rather than return to home and family.
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11/23/2005 — Red Cross Delivers Thanksgiving to Hurricane Survivors
The sight of American Red Cross emergency response vehicles (ERVs) delivering meals remains a familiar sight in hurricane-ravaged communities throughout the Gulf Coast region and the Thanksgiving day will be no different.
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11/21/2005 — We Helped Each Other Out
After spending hours in a house battered by 140-mph winds, Thomas Dean, III, emerged to find he was standing in the eye of Hurricane Katrina. He could see a wall of water 15 feet high coming at him – it was the backside of the storm.
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11/21/2005 — Glimpses of the Ninth Ward
For nearly an hour, the bus had been driving up and down the streets of the devastated Lower Ninth Ward, allowing those on board their first glimpses of the homes they had fled some two months earlier.
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11/21/2005 — Taking Care of the Caretakers
She doesn’t claim to be your Mom, but she’ll wake you up in the morning and do your laundry, cook a hot breakfast for you, pack your lunch and even have a delicious dinner waiting when you come home. Just like Dad, he’ll order “lights out” at a decent hour so you get a good night’s sleep and remind you – repeatedly – to wash your hands and take care of your health.
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11/18/2005 — Good Deeds Shelter Lives up to its Name
When disaster strikes, you hear a lot about picking up the pieces. For so many affected in the Gulf Coast region, even the pieces were shattered and scattered by the powerful one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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11/18/2005 — Finding Romance in the Chaotic Aftermath
They met in a shelter over a trash barrel of laundry and dined on leftovers at a fire station on their first date.
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11/16/2005 — Temporary Emergency Child Care Unit Helps Parents Get Back to Work without Worry
Childcare, a top priority for all parents, is even more important for families rebuilding their lives after a natural disaster. For parents in southern Mississippi whose daycare options were blown away by Hurricane Katrina, there is help.
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11/15/2005 — International Societies Visit the Big Easy
By calling on its partner societies for a helping hand, the American Red Cross reached another historic milestone during what has been an extremely turbulent hurricane season.
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11/4/2005 — Wilma Relief Work Continues in Florida
The American Red Cross continues to shelter evacuees in Florida as more heavy rains this week compound the damage caused by Hurricane Wilma and continue to prevent people from returning to their homes.
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11/4/2005 — Putting Compassion in Action
The American Red Cross strives to turn financial gifts into action as quickly as possible to get help to those people who need it the most.
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11/1/2005 — Red Cross Relief in the Florida Keys
While virtually all the tourists followed the mandatory evacuation order to leave the Florida Keys when Hurricane Wilma threatened the islands, most residents remained behind to weather the storm and its powerful surge.
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10/28/2005 — Red Cross Continues Wilma Relief Efforts
The American Red Cross continues its response to Hurricane Wilma across Florida today, as power is slowly restored to some areas and frustrated residents turn out for food, water and shelter.
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10/27/2005 — Florida Town Rides out the Storm, Begins Recovery Together
When Hurricane Wilma approached the small town of Chokoloskee Island, Fla., with its population of just 400 people, many of the residents of the close-knit community left their homes but decided to ride the storm out together in town, opting to head for higher ground at a nearby inn.
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10/25/2005 — Florida Begins Wilma Cleanup
Cleanup efforts began to day in Key West Florida as Hurricane Wilma moved out into the Atlantic, leaving behind major flooding and significant damage across the southern part of the state.
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10/25/2005 — Swingin’ for Katrina
Over 150 people of all ages, including many Gotta Swing dance students, attended this month’s fundraiser at the Chevy Chase Ballroom in Washington, DC.
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10/24/2005 — Mexican Red Cross delivers immediate aid to victims of Wilma in the Yucatan Peninsula
Hurricane Wilma, the 21st named hurricane of the 2005 hurricane season, has left a trail of destruction across the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
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10/24/2005 — Wilma Hits Florida as Category 3 Storm
Hurricane Wilma made landfall Monday morning near Cape Romano in Collier County at 6:30 a.m. as a Category 3 storm with winds around 110 mph, taking out roofs, trees and power lines along the way.
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10/23/2005 — Floridians Hunker Down as Wilma Approaches
By Sunday afternoon, Wilma’s outer bands began lashing the south coast of Florida, causing flooding in the Keys and increasing concerns about the threat of the storm as it picked up speed in the Gulf of Mexico.
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10/23/2005 — Floridians Apply Lessons Learned
[UPDATE] After Hurricane Charley devastated the Punta Gorda, Fla., area last August, many people learned valuable that are being put into action this time around as Florida residents anticipate and prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Wilma, which already has unleashed its destructive force on the coast of Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula.
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10/21/2005 — Hurricane Stan: Tecún Umán, an example of Red Cross support to the community
The plane left at 9:30 a.m., headed towards Tecún Umán, starting off a day’s work in the airlift operation being run by the Guatemala Red Cross since the onset of the emergency.
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10/21/2005 — Hurricane Stan: Hondurans try to get back on their feet
It will take months, maybe years, before people in Honduras recover from the trail of death and destruction left by Hurricane Stan.
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10/21/2005 — Visiting the Hug Station in New Orleans
Sometimes you can go home again and that’s the hardest part.
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10/21/2005 — Red Cross in Central America prepares for Wilma
Still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Stan, a number of countries in Central America including Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Cuba are bracing themselves for Hurricane Wilma, which could be the strongest hurricane for this year's Atlantic Hurricane season.
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10/20/2005 — Evans Views Hurricane Devastation in New Orleans
Seven weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, its destructive impact on New Orleans is still clear, especially in the city’s historic 9th Ward, where some streets remain off limits to residents because of unsafe conditions.
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10/19/2005 — Wilma Prompts Evacuation Call in Florida Keys
Barely a hurricane yesterday morning, Wilma has increased in both wind speed and intensity so much that it has gone from a Category 1 to a Category 5 Hurricane in less than 24 hours, breaking another record this hurricane season and prompting evacuation orders for visitors in the Florida Keys.
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10/19/2005 — Red Cross “Linebackers” Hit the Field Running
Diane Dube’s life since Hurricane Katrina is similar to thousands of other Mississippi residents with one big exception.
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10/18/2005 — Wilma, 21st Named Storm of 2005 Hurricane Season, Gains Strength
Earlier this year weather experts predicted that the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season would be one of the busiest storm seasons the United States has ever seen, and the development of Wilma in the Atlantic Ocean continues to prove them right.
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10/17/2005 — Necessity, the Mother of Inventive Solutions
Processing thousands of requests for American Red Cross financial assistance quickly and efficiently in an area of Louisiana deeply affected by one of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history was a necessity. Setting up a drive-thru service center to supplement other methods of registering survivors and disbursing funds was an inventive solution.
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10/14/2005 — Agents Backbone of Service Delivery Operation
“It’s been at least a week since I actually talked to someone,” said 21-year-old Derrick Norris, who has instead been using his fingers to provide assistance to hearing impaired hurricane victims through the TTY lines as an agent at an American Red Cross call center.
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10/14/2005 — American Red Cross Partnership with the GM Foundation and HUMMER, Like Nothing Else
There’s nothing humdrum about the new partnership that the American Red Cross, HUMMER and the GM Foundation announced on Wednesday aimed at equipping local communities to be even better prepared to respond to disasters.
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10/12/2005 — El Salvador Red Cross volunteers save a girl from the rubble
After four hours of continuous rain and unstable ground conditions, volunteers from the El Salvador Red Cross successfully managed to rescue Jennifer Vanessa Cerna, a five-year-old girl trapped in mud and rubbish after a brick building collapsed next to her home.
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10/12/2005 — Partnership Key to Service Delivery for Hurricane Victims
The Red Cross pulled together a call center through a partnership with ACS, Inc. that has since processed financial assistance for hundreds of thousands of hurricane victims who need help rebuilding their lives.
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10/11/2005 — Signs of Frustration, Sadness, Humor and Hope in Louisiana Neighborhood
Slidell, at the far southeast corner of hurricane-battered Louisiana, assaults the senses with the stench of rotting debris and sweetly sticky mud.
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10/11/2005 — Clinton, Blanco Visit Red Cross Shelter
Former President Bill Clinton and Louisiana State Governor Kathleen Blanco paid a special visit to the American Red Cross shelter at River Center in downtown Baton Rouge to meet with hurricane survivors who had been staying at the shelter since early September.
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10/11/2005 — Call Center Serves Katrina, Rita Victims
Bakersfield’s call center is one of three located across the country to support the relief operation for the victims of Rita and Katrina.
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10/7/2005 — EDITORIAL: Into the teeth of the storms
Fairness is supposed to be an American trait, but we have heard unfair and unjustified criticism of the American Red Cross for its disaster response in New Orleans, and throughout the areas devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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10/7/2005 — NBA on Top of its Game for Hurricane Relief
When it comes to raising funds for victims of the recent hurricanes, professional basketball players are fielding an all-star team.
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10/6/2005 — Red Cross Combats Fraud with Federal Partners
Some people thousands of miles away from areas affected by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina have applied for assistance from the American Red Cross or other charities, using addresses in places where they have never actually lived.
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10/6/2005 — Red Cross Workers from Around the World Join Katrina Relief Efforts
The American Red Cross has teamed with the Southern Baptist National Convention and Red Cross society workers from France, Norway and Canada to feed victims of Hurricane Katrina in St. Tammany Parish, La.
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10/5/2005 — Red Cross Volunteer does Double Duty
Most American Red Cross volunteers on the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief effort expected to face difficult conditions and challenging assignments; they don't expect a new do.
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10/5/2005 — Survivors Take Refuge Shipboard
The Hill Family, with parents Tracy and John, and their seven children decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina in their Moss Point, Miss., home. While Katrina did the damage, it was the aftermath that drove the family from their home and into temporary housing nearly two weeks later.
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10/5/2005 — Different Faces, Same Heartbreak
In the first days of operation, the American Red Cross Regional Service Center in Jackson brought hope into the lives of hundreds of people affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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10/3/2005 — Make a Dinner Date for Oct. 5
On Oct. 5, diners will leave more than just a tip at more than 16,000 restaurants around the United States.
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10/3/2005 — Survivors Choosing Love Over Fear
One happy, but surprising, phenomenon following the devastating Hurricane Katrina was the outbreak of weddings in American Red Cross shelters.
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10/3/2005 — Red Cross Helps Residents Returning to New Orleans
Residents of six selected areas in New Orleans were allowed back into the city on Saturday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck to see their homes or what was left of them.
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10/1/2005 — Rita’s Wrath, Resilient Spirits
Just south of Lake Charles, La., is low-lying Cameron Parish, sparsely populated yet tight-knit communities that have come together in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.
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9/30/2005 — Health and Safety Precautions in the Wake of Katrina and Rita
While hurricanes usually bring trials with high winds, heavy rain storms and flash floodwaters, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina churned up particularly hazardous waters that have lingered in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, making the weeks following its landfall a disaster unto itself, increasing health risks for residents and those who are there to help.
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9/30/2005 — Red Cross Plans to Support Rita Victims
The American Red Cross is expanding its financial assistance and motel housing programs to cover the victims of Hurricane Rita, just as it has in place for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
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9/30/2005 — An Indescribable Gift of Spirit
While shopping on Saturday, Sept. 3, Vicky Davenport felt moved to buy the local biweekly newspaper, something she didn’t usually do. An article about Katrina relief efforts caught her eye and the next day she was attending a disaster services training session.
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9/28/2005 — First-Time Volunteer Calls Experience “Above Expectations”
The American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina disaster operations headquarters in Jackson, Miss., recently said goodbye to Dr. Mallory Read, a retired emergency physician who has just finished his first two-week deployment with the Red Cross.
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9/28/2005 — Good to Know that Someone Cares
Eunice Rutland has lived in her house for 45 years and was one of the people who chose to stay at home when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
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9/26/2005 — Red Cross Program Offers Emotional Support to Disaster Survivors
As the Gulf Coast braced physically for Hurricane Rita this weekend, American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health worker Dawn Harris prepared for the emotional impact that a second major hurricane to hit the area in recent weeks would have on the thousands of evacuees pouring into Little Rock, Ark., to escape the storm.
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9/26/2005 — Rita Moves Thousands More Into Shelters
Nearly 150,000 people sought refuge in American Red Cross shelters as Hurricane Rita threatened the Gulf Coast over the weekend. The latest storm to attack the United States did not as much damage as Hurricane Katrina, but is no less devastating for the thousands forced to evacuate who worry about their homes and communities.
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9/23/2005 — Red Cross Needs Public Support for Ongoing Hurricane Relief Efforts
The American Red Cross will serve the victims of Hurricane Rita as it has done with Hurricane Katrina and countless other storms, but it can’t do it without the ongoing support of the American public.
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9/22/2005 — Mexican Red Cross Helps Katrina Survivors
At the Houston Chapter office of the American Red Cross, every nook and cranny is filled with people and luggage – 20 men line the sides of the hallway, waiting to register. They’re not evacuees; they’re waiting to register as Red Cross volunteers to assist in the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
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9/22/2005 — Chapter Trains Volunteers to Respond to Hurricane Katrina
Virginia’s Arlington County Chapter of the American Red Cross has trained 240 new volunteers for rapid deployment to the Gulf region.
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9/22/2005 — At the Ready
With a notice that evacuees would begin arriving within 24 hours, the Red Cross and other members of the Washington Area Consortium of community organizations set to work.
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9/21/2005 — WWII Veteran Repays Red Cross Kindness by Helping Katrina Survivors
Bill Ritt’s first experience with the American Red Cross came near the end of World War II, when the 17-year-old Navy recruit fell ill and the organization helped contact his parents.
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9/21/2005 — A Taste of Home for New Orleans Hurricane Survivors
Some of life's simplest pleasures, often taken for granted in the course of busy days, can mean so much following a disaster -- like a cup of your favorite coffee.
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9/21/2005 — More than a Shelter, A Learning Center that Helps the Healing Begin
“First Aid for Feelings” is the story being read to young Hurricane Katrina Survivors by American Red Cross volunteers at a makeshift school in the building they also call home for now.
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9/21/2005 — Family Links Up After Katrina
Reunion Arena in Dallas, former home to the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and the NHL’s Dallas Stars, has seen it’s share of celebrations, but none more special than one that occurred last week after a family separated after Katrina was joyfully reunited.
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9/20/2005 — Overcoming Many Obstacles, Couple Says “I Do” at Red Cross Shelter
As the water rose in New Orleans, Joseph Smothers walked to the Superdome while his fiancée, Rebecca Warren, and four members of her family made for the perceived safety of the convention center.
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9/16/2005 — Fort Worth’s Newest Residents Take First Steps towards Recovery
While their journey to Texas was a long one filled with harrowing days at the New Orleans Superdome, long rides on buses and lost contacts with family and friends, many evacuees have found shelter with the American Red Cross in Fort Worth, Texas.
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9/16/2005 — Jail Becomes Home for Red Cross Volunteers
Red Cross relief work supervisor Jeff Chinn is a long way from his family, but he’s finding all the comforts of home in a Kenner jail cell.
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9/16/2005 — Married Volunteers Continue Work in Louisiana
Nelson and Serena Bailey of the Diamond Valley Chapter, in Malvern, AK, know something about longevity with the American Red Cross. Married 54 years and volunteers since 1976, they may be record-holders for serving national disaster operations.
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9/16/2005 — Husband Finds Missing Wife at Red Cross Shelter
“Thank God she didn’t stay here and ride out the storm.”
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9/16/2005 — Life Experience Brings in New Volunteer
When Jim Bush, CEO of City Dash, a Cincinnati -based delivery company, offered some of his trucks to the American Red Cross to deliver relief supplies after Hurricane Katrina, he scarcely realized that his offer to would lead to managing a centrally-located, 150,000-square-foot warehouse in the middle of the Gulf Coast.
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9/15/2005 — Celebs Bring Star Power to Katrina Telethons
What’s on television today could change the course of tomorrow. Several network stations are airing telethons featuring celebrities as a motivational and opportune way for the public to support the American Red Cross and other nonprofit organizations following Hurricane Katrina.
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9/15/2005 — Bonnie and Clyde Are Alive and Well
The infamously named duo of Bonnie and Clyde were reunited with their family yesterday. For Cynthia Davis, who was staying in a nearby Red Cross shelter, the event was an emotional one. The New Orleans woman had not seen her seven-month-old Dobermans for several days.
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9/15/2005 — Gloria Estefan Entertains Evacuees
Sporting a white baseball cap with the American Red Cross on the front and Gloria on the back, Grammy award winning singer Gloria Estefan visited the evacuees of the River Center Shelter in Louisiana and Long Beach, Miss.
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9/14/2005 — Live From Washington, D.C., This Is Red Cross Radio!
The Red Cross is reaching high into the sky to bring the most up-to-date, most accurate Hurricane Katrina relief information directly to storm survivors, relief workers and Americans coast to coast thanks to XM Satelite Radio.
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9/14/2005 — Southern Baptists Help Feed Millions After Katrina
When disaster strikes, the American Red Cross swings into action, but it rarely responds alone. Long-established partnerships get called into play, especially for disasters of enormous scale like Hurricane Katrina.
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9/13/2005 — Journal of a First-Time Volunteer
It seems like just another flight anywhere to visit friends, relatives, do a little business. But nothing is the same about this Continental flight direct from Sacramento to Houston. Anticipation. Anxiety. What to expect? What exactly will I be doing, where will I be working? Will I be up to the job assigned to me in Public Affairs as a volunteer from our Western Nevada County Chapter of the American Red Cross?
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9/13/2005 — It’s a Great Feeling to Help
A mental health professional stops Teresa Goins and asks her to check on a little girl sitting on a cot farther down the aisle at the Reliant Center.
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9/13/2005 — Establishing a Temporary Community and Sense of Normalcy
What would you call a place with a barber shop, medical clinic, church services on Sunday and school teachers? A community, perhaps? It may not be the image one conjures when thinking of a hurricane shelter, but the American Red Cross shelter at the Baton Rouge River Center has all of those things.
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9/13/2005 — Red Cross Volunteers Lend their Expertise in Caring for Katrina Survivors
When the Red Cross neighborhood care team saw one-year-old Samya Jones in her mother’s arms they knew she was ill.
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9/12/2005 — Waiting for News
New Orleans resident Lena Turpin, with her Boston terrier Radar and catfish Oscar, escaped Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters that flowed through New Orleans afterward, and now she waits for news of her brother, Frank Bacino.
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9/12/2005 — Maryland Children Send Words of Comfort to Survivors
Scrawled by a child’s hand on orange construction paper, the words read: “Dear Katrina survivors, I hope you find a home. I know I would be veary sad if I loost my house and toys. We are thinking about you.”
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9/12/2005 — Neighbors Helping Neighbors in Jefferson Parish
Thirty-eight cases of canned tuna fish, 122 cases of peanut butter, 60,000 bottles of water and 30,000 Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) are just a few of the hundreds of pallets of donated food that will care for the residents remaining in Jefferson Parish.
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9/12/2005 — Houses of Worship become “Homes” to those in Need
“You are dealing with a great soup of rationality and irrationality, and it’s just cooking,” said Paul Dirdak, Deputy General Secretary of the United Methodist Committee (UMC) on Relief, of the ever-increasing anxiety among evacuees.
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9/12/2005 — Baton Rouge Disaster Operations Headquarters Remembers Sept. 11
Sept. 11 has a special poignancy for many American Red Cross disaster workers. Some lost family or friends; others remember their days at Ground Zero where they helped in the recovery process.
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9/11/2005 — Stranded Tourist Stays to Help Red Cross Relief Efforts
A young tourist stranded by Hurricane Katrina declined an offer to be airlifted out by the Spanish Embassy, opting instead to help with the American Red Cross relief efforts in this ravaged region.
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9/11/2005 — Put on the Red Cross Disaster Vest, the Job Comes to You
Alan Stoller of Fort Wayne, Ind., served in the National Guard and knew first aid and CPR and thought there had to be a way he could the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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9/11/2005 — 16-Year-Old Survivor Proud to Wear Orange “Volunteer” Wrist Band
Sixteen-year-old Floyd Allen is very popular with the children in the Red Cross shelter at the Reliant Center in Houston.
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9/11/2005 — Disney Brings the ‘Magic Kingdom’ to Red Cross Shelter
In Reliant Center, home to many New Orleans Hurricane Katrina survivors, a childhood fantasy came to life yesterday when Mickey and Minnie Mouse, along with Goofy and Pluto, came to help the young and the young at heart.
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9/9/2005 — Evacuees Seek Refuge, Find Safe Haven in Hattiesburg Shelter
Hurricane Katrina may have stolen 79-year-old Glorya Sanders’ home, but not her hope.
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9/9/2005 — Sun Will Shine Again
Despite the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Barbara Gibson, the Mayor of Sun, La., about 50 miles north of New Orleans, is unwavering about the recovery of her town.
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9/8/2005 — Finding Family in a Place Called Homa
As Hurricane Katrina raged through the Gulf Coast last week, New Orleans resident Elaine Pittman chose to remain in the city with her landlord of many years – a 76-year-old man who could not get around on his own.
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9/8/2005 — Lost in Houston, Found the Red Cross
Shawn Jacob hails from Seminol Parish in New Orleans and always considered himself blessed.
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9/7/2005 — Down, But Never Out
Curtis Brown is a person who knows all about tenacity. He is a long-time native of New Orleans, who ignored the warnings to evacuate because it meant leaving his beloved Dobermans and his businesses behind.
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9/7/2005 — Stories of Fear and Hope from the Ground
Looking down from the ninth floor of the Astrodome, all you see is a checkerboard of cots and motion.
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9/6/2005 — Celebrity Cabinet Supports Katrina Relief
American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet members are making their presence felt across the country to support the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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9/6/2005 — Former Red Cross Volunteer Finds Shelter with Old Friends
Unable to flee Hurricane Katrina because of a broken hip, 68-year-old Biloxi resident Shirley Collars turned to old friends for help.
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9/5/2005 — Rev. Jesse Jackson Offers Words of Encouragement at Red Cross Shelter
Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans being housed at the River Center Shelter in Baton Rouge received encouraging words from the Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday afternoon.
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9/5/2005 — President Bush Visits American Red Cross Disaster Operations Center
President George W. Bush made an impromptu visit the American Red Cross national headquarters yesterday to address the staff and volunteers supporting Hurricane Katrina disaster relief operations from the organization’s busy national Disaster Operations Center in Washington.
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9/4/2005 — Good To Be Safe
Gereld Sibely, a native of New Orleans, has found shelter in the Houston Astrodome. His tale is one of many.
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9/3/2005 — Collaboration Key to Hurricane Katrina Response
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Red Cross is launching one of its largest responses ever to a national disaster and working with partners across the country to provide support for Katrina's victims.
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9/1/2005 — The Houston Astrodome: A Symphony of Relief
When the Superdome in New Orleans was wounded Katrina, the 23,000 evacuees housed there would once again have to move. Solutions had to be found, and one answer was bussing to Houston for sheltering in the Astrodome.
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9/1/2005 — Katrina Survivors Glimpse the Places They Called Home
On the morning after Hurricane Katrina slammed into this historic Gulf Coast town, with the help of American Red Cross workers, some residents returned to survey the places they used to call home.
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8/31/2005 — About Donating Goods to the Red Cross for Areas Impacted by Hurricane Katrina
When a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina strikes, people are eager to donate food, clothing or other goods to meet the needs of storm victims and help the affected families begin to replace what they have lost.
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8/30/2005 — Volunteers Mobilized Nationwide to Support Katrina Relief
The American Red Cross has mobilized thousands of volunteers to respond in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which completely devastated parts of Louisiana and left at least 55 people dead.
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8/29/2005 — Weathering the Storm with a Little Help from New Friends
Weary travelers, evacuated from their homes, have found a safe haven from the threat of Hurricane Katrina in the American Red Cross shelters that have opened across Louisiana and Mississippi.
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8/28/2005 — Cat. 5 Katrina Heads Towards New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina is now an incredibly strong Category 5 storm heading straight for New Orleans with sustained winds at 175 miles per hour.
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8/28/2005 — Coastal Town Prepares for Hurricane Katrina
It looks like just another quiet Sunday in this community on the Gulf Coast just East of Biloxi, Miss. People are out for a jog, walking their dogs and cutting the grass. It is almost as if the residents of this picturesque old Southern town do not know what is looming on the horizon.
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8/27/2005 — Gulf Coast States Prepare for Hurricane Katrina
At least seven people have died in accidents caused by underrated Hurricane Katrina after she hit southern Florida on Thursday, leaving flooding across southern Florida before emerging into the Gulf of Mexico where it continues to strengthen and is now heading toward Louisiana, where it is expected to make landfall sometime Monday.
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8/26/2005 — Red Cross Responds to Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Southern Florida Thursday night as a Category One storm, and the American Red Cross began its immediate response to support residents dealing with the latest major storm to hit the southeastern United States.
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8/25/2005 — Hurricane Katrina Comes Ashore in Florida
Katrina came ashore Thursday in on the Southeast coast of Florida near Ft. Lauderdale with winds higher than 60 miles per hour. Forecasters are expecting anywhere from five to 12 inches of rain as the storm moves across the southern part of the state.
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8/24/2005 — Tropical Storm Katrina Heads for Miami
Meteorologists are watching Tropical Storm Katrina closely as it washes over the Bahamas and heads for the Florida coast, where it is expected to make landfall sometime on Friday.
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