On Wednesday, Sept. 3, students from Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School who live in Queens presented a check for $5,000 to the A...

By Agatha Kereere Anita Salzberg, American Red Cross Greater NY editorial manager, was home with her husband in their Queens, N.Y., ap...

By Dorothy He For Kaydian Grennan of Far Rockaway, it was a typical morning at her uncle’s two-story house. She and her four young chi...

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

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

Although Edward Gralla and his family evacuated their home in Far Rockaway in advance of Superstorm Sandy last October, they returned to f...

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

A few years after my husband and I moved into our Queens, N.Y., apartment two decades ago, my then 12-year-old cousin, Ted, visited from o...

Pastor Burt Crabbe addresses Red Cross High School Club members “Profoundly jarring.” That’s how Bert Crabbe, pastor of True North Com...

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 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...

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...

Diana Perez by Laura Steifman Diana Perez is the matriarch of a 12-person extended family that lives together on the second floor apart...

By Anita Salzberg, Editorial Manager/Staff Writer I’ve watched Red Cross responders help people after a house fire or a vacate order numer...

by Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla Screen Capture from NY1 Report Having a fire in your home is (in some ways) like having a birthday: E...

 by Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla Corduroy, the teddy bear Aabye had since birth, survived the fire.  The days immediately followin...

by Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla This is what became of the apartment directly above ours.  Isn’t it amazing how a flame that starts o...