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Retrospective: One Year Since Historic Floods in Northwest Iowa and Surrounding Areas
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca First, a year's worth of rain fell on northwestern Iowa for three days. Then, the flooding began. In late June...
NEIA Red Cross
Jun 204 min read
Supporting the health of communities for Red Cross Month
March became Red Cross Month over 80 years ago with a proclamation from President Franklin Roosevelt. Every American president has...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 72 min read
Navy Veteran Becomes Red Cross Volunteer
By Aerial Woods Yvonne Lambertson is a proud veteran of 12 years active-duty service in the U.S. Navy, who medically retired in 1997. Her...
NEIA Red Cross
Feb 232 min read
Nice to Meet You: Shanie Bockmann
Shanie Bockmann works as a disaster program manager. She trains and supports our volunteers and is often on the frontlines during a...
NEIA Red Cross
Dec 10, 20243 min read
Winter Home Fire Preparedness
The winter holidays are upon us. Unfortunately, we continue to see home fires. Home fires are the most common disaster. Between November...
NEIA Red Cross
Nov 20, 20243 min read
Nebraska-Iowa Red Crossers provide hope as hurricane recovery continues
Over the past few weeks, residents of Southeastern states have been coping with the devastation left by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane...
NEIA Red Cross
Oct 20, 20242 min read
Nebraska and Iowa Volunteers answer call to help
It’s been a week since Hurricane Helene made landfall, and the American Red Cross is working 24/7 with dozens of partners to get help to...
NEIA Red Cross
Oct 4, 20242 min read
5 Takeaways from Preparedness Month
September is National Preparedness Month, and we’ve spent the past few weeks posting different ways you and your family can prepare for...
NEIA Red Cross
Sep 29, 20242 min read
When disaster hits close to home, new volunteers step up
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca On April 26, Melissa Chambers was sent home early from work to prepare for bad weather. When the tornado sirens...
NEIA Red Cross
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Nice to Meet You: Rob Wisniewski
Our work on a disaster response begins long before a disaster even happens. It is the job of our Disaster Cycle Services team members and...
NEIA Red Cross
Aug 30, 20242 min read
Caring for pets in a Red Cross shelter
By Janet Flanagan and Peter Teahen Red Cross Pet Liaison Melissa McGill knows that if disaster strikes, it isn’t just people who need...
NEIA Red Cross
Jul 2, 20241 min read
“Above and beyond the call of duty”
Randall Hair, a Greenfield, Iowa resident for decades, had just returned home from the hospital for a fractured ankle when an EF4 tornado...
NEIA Red Cross
May 31, 20242 min read
A Safe, Comfortable Place to Stay After the Greenfield Tornado
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Where do you go if your home and your relatives’ homes were destroyed by an EF4 tornado, and you were just...
NEIA Red Cross
May 27, 20243 min read
From the Field: 4 Days After April 2024 Tornadoes
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca At 8 a.m. on Monday, April 29, Stu Coulson picked up his rental car in Waterloo, Iowa, to drive over six hours...
NEIA Red Cross
May 2, 20242 min read
Volunteers Sound the Alarm in Cedar Rapids
Last weekend, over 100 Red Cross volunteers installed 316 free smoke alarms in the Taylor and Czech Village neighborhoods of Cedar Rapids...
NEIA Red Cross
Apr 19, 20242 min read
Check Those Smoke Alarms While Springing Forward
Red Cross suggest you to TEST your smoke alarms as you TURN your clocks forward this weekend. Daylight saving time begins on March 10 and...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 8, 20242 min read
Volunteer Travels to the Ends of the Earth to Tell the Stories of Those Impacted by Disasters
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca “I’m a storyteller. When I’m deployed, I tell the stories of families who are impacted by national disasters,”...
NEIA Red Cross
Mar 7, 20243 min read
Join the Red Cross Month Celebration
This week, the American Red Cross Nebraska-Iowa Region is kicking off its annual Red Cross Month celebration in March to honor local...
NEIA Red Cross
Feb 29, 20242 min read
Taking Simple Actions Can Prevent the Most Common Disaster - Home Fires
After responding to over 1,000 home fires throughout Nebraska and Iowa, we encourage everyone to take fire safety actions. Home fires are...
NEIA Red Cross
Feb 22, 20242 min read
Volunteer Determined to Help Pet Owner Find Housing After Fire
By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca On the evening of August 26, 2023, a blaze broke out at an apartment complex in West Omaha, Nebraska. A small...
NEIA Red Cross
Jan 24, 20243 min read
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