Disaster Alert
Hawaii – Heavy rain and strong winds caused varying degrees of damage to buildings in Oahu yesterday.
The Hawaii State Chapter opened a shelter at the request of the Oahu Emergency Management. The Chapter will do damage assessment later today.
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Disaster Alert
Wisconsin - Heavy rain flooded parts of Milwaukee and Oak Creek yesterday prompting some evacuations. The Oak Creek Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is open.
The ARC in Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter opened three shelters yesterday but closed one; they will provide meals and drinks to the shelter residents.
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Disaster Alert
California — Heavy rains caused evacuations in areas of recent wildfires such as the Station, Morris, Sayre and Murrick fires. The main areas of concern are Altadena, La Canada, La Crescenta, Glendale, Sunland-Tujunga (City of Los Angeles) and Acton.
ARC of Greater Los Angeles
Antelope Valley Chapter
San Gabriel Pomona Valley Chapter
Glendale-Crescenta Valley Chapter
Glendale-Crescenta Valley and Antelope Valley Chapters have each opened an evacuation shelter. The chapters continue to coordinate with the local government of the various counties. Other shelter locations have been identified and could be opened if needed. Chapters also have liaisons in place to support all of the command posts and Emergency Operations Centers that have opened.
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Disaster Alert
Connecticut – Strong winds caused temperatures to plunge to about 10 -15 degrees resulting in power outages to more than 100, 000 customers and downed power lines. Power companies are working to restore power to every household. The Connecticut chapter opened a shelter yesterday.
Pennsylvania – Ridgebury had very strong winds and extremely low temperatures yesterday, it is not yet known whether there were power outages, downed power lines or damages.
The Bradford-Sullivan Counties chapter took over a shelter at the request of Ridgebury Volunteers Fire department. The shelter had 32 people earlier but was closed around 2 am after everyone left. The Susquehanna County chapter assisted with volunteers and the Lackawanna County chapter placed volunteers on standby.
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Disaster Alert
Florida – Heavy rainfall and gusty winds caused flooding that affected Broward County residents on Friday. The ARC of Greater Miami and the Keys and Broward County chapter deployed a Disaster Action Team (DAT), opened a shelter, and provided Mass Care to shelter residents.
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Disaster Alert
Tennessee – Heavy rainfall on Tuesday caused flooding and mudslides in Hamilton County that prompted the evacuation of residents within the affected area.
Greater Chattanooga Area Chapter deployed Disaster ActionTeam (DAT), opened a shelter, and partnered with community agencies to provide Mass Care (MC) for affected-area residents.
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Disaster Alert
Florida - Severe weather is forecast for much of the South Area through today, including heavy rain, strong winds, and floods. The Florida State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is activated partially at level 2. The Central Florida Chapter is currently identifying potential shelter locations and placing volunteers on alert.
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Disaster Alert
Louisiana – A severe storm system throughout the region caused a tornado to touch down damaging homes and affecting dozens of others in Bossier Parrish Thursday night. The Northwest Louisiana Chapter deployed a Disaster Action Team (DAT), opened a shelter, staffed the county Emergency Operations Center (EOC); and partnered with a local vendor to provide food and drinks. The Central Louisiana Chapter provided individual assistance to those affected in the area.
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Tracy Reines, Director of the International Response Center, provides a weekend update of American Red Cross relief operations in the Asia Pacific region. Ongoing recovery efforts continue in the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Samoa and American Samoa as a major typhoon, earthquakes and a tsunami ravaged the area this week.
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Nan Buzard, Senior Director of International Response and Programs, discusses the global Red Cross presence in light of the disasters in the Asia Pacific region. She globe hops from the tsunami relief efforts in American Samoa and Samoa to the earthquake response in Indonesia and lands at the ongoing typhoon response in the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos.
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