Every year on September 11 we reflect on that fateful day in 2001 and on the trying weeks, months and years that followed. We do so to ho...

by Stan Frank For over 60 years, the President of the United States has designated March as American Red Cross Month. It is a month when w...

Red Cross responding to a 3-alarm fire on Decatur Ave in the Bronx. In the last week the Red Cross provided emergency relief in the form...

Sal Montoro, far right, with Long Island colleagues. Like so many people, Long Island resident Sal Montoro started volunteering with the...

By Caroline Hroncich  On a hot Monday in August I found myself standing on a street in the Bronx wearing a bright yellow and red reflectiv...

by Alice Ding As an intern at the American Red Cross Greater New York Region, part of my job is to interview volunteers and blog about t...

Friends and neighbors Cristina Morales (l) and Miguelina Jaquez (r) Miguelina Jaquez and Cristina Morales, neighbors and friends for ...

Story and photo by Bill Fortune There are times when the American Red Cross could be considered an international organization. Th...

By Ashley Chapman At two a.m., the smell of burning electricity was so strong that it awoke Angela Rosa and her three kids in their Br...

Firefighter Joseph Aminolfi (left) being interviewed by Steve Brown in Breezy Point, N.Y. Photo courtesy of American Red Cross. As you a...

by Lilly Watson American Red Cross volunteers of many backgrounds from cities across America fill the fourth floor of Red Cross Greater ...

When Barb Bakalyar, a Board member from the American Red Cross Southwest Minnesota chapter, and her daughter, Sarah Pohlman, trained toget...

Manhattanite Blythe Argenbright has been a Red Crosser since 2006, when she interned at the Boston chapter while in college. In 2009, havi...

by Giselle Gomez With a bright, neon colored snow flake beanie and gloves, Red Cross volunteer Krystal Richardson from Laurel, Mississip...

Disbelief … shock … sadness. Sandra Simpson felt all these emotions while watching her basement become engulfed in flames on Labor Day ...

New Rochelle resident and 20-year American Red Cross volunteer Ana Torres deployed to the Gulf Coast last week as part of the Red Cross re...

Sam Kille speaks with Jim Cantore, of The Weather Channel, about the Red Cross response to Hurricane Isaac. Behind them is a flooded neigh...

In the two years since Susan duBourg, a retired Verizon employee from Glen Head, New York, became an American Red Cross disaster voluntee...

According to the National Weather Service, about 25 million lightning flashes occur each year in the United States, each one potentially d...

 Photo: E. Calderon/S. Johnson  Okisha Ashley, her four children and her grandmother, Nellie, who was visiting from the Island of Ja...