By Gordon Williams December 1918. Combating influenza in Seattle, Washington, at work in the Red Cross rooms in Seattle, Washington with influenza masks on faces. Mention the American Red Cross and you think of aiding disaster victims, collecting blood and teaching first aid. Those are all functions the Red Cross performs, but in 1918 we … Continue reading When the Spanish Flu hit Seattle 100 years ago, the Red Cross was there
10 Ways to Make the Most of Fire Prevention Week
By Gordon Williams Fire Prevention Week runs from October 7th through the 13th this year, and there is reason enough for every American family to make plans to mark the week. The aim of Fire Prevention Week is to reduce death and injury from home fires. When it comes to fires in the home, the … Continue reading 10 Ways to Make the Most of Fire Prevention Week
Hero and a Scholar: CPR Skills Used to Save Life at College
On a breezy Tuesday morning in October, a hero walked through the door of the Red Cross office in Seattle. Rameen Sahoo, from Bellevue, was onsite to accept the Certificate of Merit. Trained in American Red Cross Lifeguarding and First Aid/CPR/AED, Rameen helped save the life of a gentleman who lost consciousness on the University … Continue reading Hero and a Scholar: CPR Skills Used to Save Life at College
How the Red Cross (not vampires) Collects Blood in Forks
By Gordon Williams Photos by Heath Palen-McBee The American Red Cross is very serious when it comes to its mission of collecting human blood. After all, there is a call for blood somewhere in America once every two seconds and 40% of all the blood collected in the United States is collected by the Red … Continue reading How the Red Cross (not vampires) Collects Blood in Forks
Microsoft Disaster Expert Moonlights as Red Cross Volunteer
By Gordon Williams When Cameron Birge first volunteered for the American Red Cross early in 2016, it was to help put down roots in a city that was new to him and to rebuild ties to a country where he had not lived in close to 20 years. These days Cameron is a volunteer disaster … Continue reading Microsoft Disaster Expert Moonlights as Red Cross Volunteer
Fran Adams: From the Eye of Hurricane Florence
By Gordon Williams There’s a bit of the hero in any Red Cross volunteer who sets out to aid the victims of some far-off disaster. Still, some Red Cross volunteers are a bit more heroic than others. Case-in-point is Fran Adams of Olympia WA, who has responded to so many disasters over the years that … Continue reading Fran Adams: From the Eye of Hurricane Florence
Getting Prepared with Pillowcases
By Nihit Pokhrel This September, as part of National Preparedness Month, the Red Cross is gearing up for different ways to remind us that we must always be prepared. With students going back to school for the academic year, the Pillowcase Project – a preparedness education program for grades 3 through 5 – arrives at … Continue reading Getting Prepared with Pillowcases
JBLM: Red Cross returns to former home to help troops and families
Written by Mark Walker Photography by Ray Lapine DUPONT – Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Col. Nicole Lucas was impressed. The JBLM commander had just gotten her first glimpses of the Red Cross’s expansive new home housing the organization’s wide array of Services to the Armed Forces (SAF). “To me the Red Cross really represents everything that’s … Continue reading JBLM: Red Cross returns to former home to help troops and families
Blankets of Comfort
By Diane Toomey Photos by Karen Kim Shortly after Betty Young retired, she was channel surfing and came across a local ad seeking volunteers to make quilts for the Red Cross. Betty was interested in doing something to give back. In March of 1996 she joined eleven other women who met every Monday to sew quilts that … Continue reading Blankets of Comfort
Add Rising Ocean Levels to the List of Climate-Related Risks
By Gordon Williams The University of Washington Climate Impacts Group does highly-respected research into every aspect of how the climate affects the Pacific Northwest. The goal of that research is to stimulate smart decision-making by those who must deal with the consequences of climate change. Given the pernicious effects of global warming on the regional … Continue reading Add Rising Ocean Levels to the List of Climate-Related Risks
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