During National Fire Prevention Week, Red Crossers and firefighters with Dover Fire Dept. taught 1,200 young children in Dover schools how to prepare for, as well as cope during and after, home fires.

Popular radio host Elvis Duran and personalities from The Morning Show and Z100 New York encouraged blood donations amid a national Red Cross emergency blood shortage.

Coordinated by Red Cross, 600 Coast Guard recruits were able to take a break from basic training and spend Thanksgiving with 100 Cape May County host families and organizations.

Friends and family members were on hand as lifeguards with Wyckoff Family YMCA were presented with the American Red Cross Lifesaving Award for Professional Responders.

Flooding devastated neighborhoods in numerous NJ towns in December, and then again in January.

Every year, the Fair Lawn community comes together to roll up their sleeves in memory of Peter Tyszko.

During Red Cross Month, a dedication ceremony was held to rename the Bordentown Post Office after Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross and the first free school in New Jersey.

“There was a fire two houses down the street a few weeks ago and I woke up in the middle of the night. It’s scary to think it could have been this house.”

See Red Cross volunteers helping at the Vietnam Memorial Wall.

Volunteers Lynn and Chris, who've deployed together for 19 years, headed out on the road again in a Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle.

A fire on School Street destroyed belongings and left 9 families without a home. An additional three buildings, containing 9 units each, were evacuated as a safety precaution.  

The Red Cross announced 3 new partnerships with nonprofit organizations that will increase access to nutritious food, health services and safe housing before and after disasters. BOX: Learn more about the Community Adaptation Program.