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 ...

By Dora He As a single mother who works as a waitress and hostess, Elizabeth Huerta had many things to worry about. Like most people, th...

Rafee Greig returned home from a long day at work one weekday night and received a tremendous shock: A brutal fire had swept through his B...

By Michelle Shore In late March 2013, Bronx resident George Ford returned home from a friend’s house and saw his second-story apartment ...

by Carl Manning For Hafiz Ahmed, the American Red Cross was the difference between keeping his dignity as family provider and suffering ...

By Gemma Haywood Chelsea residents Ana, 27, and Miguel, 36, had been planning a romantic evening at home March 27: sharing a bottle of ...

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

by Michelle Shore When fire began spreading through Marjorie Farrell’s fourth floor Brooklyn apartment on the bitterly cold night of Feb...

By Ashley Chapman Maria Castro likes to talk about how her 17-year old son, Jorge Rosario—or Jay Jay, as she calls him—spontaneously dov...

By Ashley Chapman On January 14, Na’eem Rasheed, age 36, returned from class to find fire trucks blocking his street in Bedford-Stuyves...

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...

By Julie Krizen Although the American Red Cross is in the midst of its Superstorm Sandy response, the largest U.S. disaster response in ...

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

By Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla Home—there’s no place like it. But after the fire in our apartment building left us displaced for almo...

by Gordon Williams It's impossible to know in advance when disaster will strike—or to appreciate the degree of trauma and chaos vict...

By Gordon Williams I've been a Disaster Planning and Response volunteer at the Greater New York Red Cross for the past seven years—si...

by Gordon Williams, Red Cross Volunteer Look at just one disaster scene, work your way through one burned-out dwelling and you’ll unders...

By Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla Ever since I was a kid I’ve had an affinity for fire trucks—I found them beautiful in a...

After a fire broke out in the basement of 201 East 120th Street in Manhattan the afternoon of April 27, the Red Cross responded to the sce...

By Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla Photo: Ian Favilla They say moving on isn’t easy. Well, they’d be right. My husband and I found oursel...