Alexis Schroeder By Elaine Biller, Greater NY Volunteer   On Sept. 17, 2014 a massive 3-alarm fire raged through a Second Avenue apartm...

After discovering flames shooting from a compactor room next to their lower Manhattan apartment on a Sunday night, Nellie Quiles and her ...

U/D Brooklyn: *2 Alarm Fire* Box 0367 at 583 flushing Ave fire in a 4 story multiple dwelling is now under control. pic.twitter.com/qDbVt7p...

Yvette Carvajal and her Red Cross casworker, Lilliam Rivera-Cruz by Caroline Hroncich A relaxing day at the beach quickly took a turn fo...

Long-time Red Cross volunteer Fred Leahy, who serves as Sr. Volunteer Partner to Red Cross Northeast Division Disaster Executive Tom Vitul...

After a frantic call from her daughter, Sally DeVolt rushed home from work on a Friday afternoon to find that her apartment of 15 years had ...

Red Cross volunteer Bob Cowert, pictured above, lives in Nyack, N.Y., in Rockland County and owns a floor covering store in Congers, N.Y. ...

Although Imeh Cuthbertson and her husband had had problems with the power in their Bronx apartment for some time (for example, if their be...

Photo by Anita Salzberg by Dorothy He Last Friday, I had the opportunity to ride along with a Red Cross disaster relief team as they r...

Story and photo by Anita Salzberg Since Typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines this past weekend, Ronnie Rigos knew he wanted to...

For Bedford-Stuyvesant native Halzian Owen, one tragedy was followed by another. Just a week after her husband passed away, a devastating ...

Jaimie Sanita and Emily Viemeister were awakened around 4 am on a steamy night in July by frantic knocking by a neighbor: there was a fire...

By Gordon Williams Mike Hollis of Sunnyside, Queens, has played a great many roles in his five years as a volunteer with the America...

Red Cross Helps Actress after New York Apartment Fire By Steele Filipek Although Kira Davies and her boyfriend, Tim Race, didn’t connec...

Laura Harms of Jefferson City, Mo., is on her first national disaster relief deployment. The Red Cross Health Services volunteer, who...

“We help make the heart good again.” Those words went with American Red Cross volunteer Ronald Oliver as he visited Red Cross shelters...

Most days Inwood Community Center is a place where seniors come to mingle and children come to play. On Oct. 29 it quickly morphed into a ...

Michael Clark spent his 22nd birthday giving rather than receiving. An American Red Cross volunteer from Eureka, Calif., Clark came all ...

Among a sea of red-clothed volunteers handing out comfort and clean-up kits on Thanksgiving Day in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, ...

Andy Harris is a cyclist, a world traveler, and one of the most dedicated workers at the Miller Field bulk distribution center. This Engli...