Our Red Stories

UPDATED: March 10, 2022 Since the immediate aftermath of tornadoes that touched down in Iowa on Saturday, the Red Cross has been...

Pride is what Barbara Sierra (53) exudes when speaking about her apartment at Geneva Tower in Cedar Rapids. Sierra lives with chronic...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Scott Hampton, a volunteer with the Nebraska & Iowa Red Cross for the last year and a half, didn’t miss the...

By Samantha Edwards The American Red Cross experiences an increase in home fires during the winter. Encouraging households to be prepared...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca In 2019, Pat Shields, a recent retiree and Omaha native, watched the damage caused by the spring floods unfold...

By Samantha Edwards It's Fire Prevention Week. Did you know that fires are the number one disaster that we respond to? Unfortunately, we...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca After retiring from Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in 2003, Chuck Scripter began dedicating his time to...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca “Right now, we’re just doing what we can to give people food, a roof over their head and a place to sleep,”...

Many weather experts predict a destructive disaster season this year. When those events happen, the Red Cross will be prepared to be...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca During fire season in Iowa and Nebraska, a devastating scenario happens several times a month: A family stands...

By Dani Mallis The American Red Cross through the years has adapted to the needs of our communities and created Mental Health Services in...

By Dani Mallis There are many volunteer opportunities in the American Red Cross. One essential position in disaster response is Duty...

On May 8, 2021, American Red Cross volunteers visited with commuity members in Perry, Iowa and Columbus, Nebraska, to Sound the Alarm...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca When Brian Eiteman’s firefighter grandfather walked into his third-grade classroom to teach fire safety, Brian...

By Ashley Peterson-DeLuca Dan Miller has been fighting fires since he was 16 when he joined the Fire Cadets in his hometown of Yutan,...

A cold Sunday morning with a head cold. Corinne Bulat was awoken by her upstairs neighbor’s smoke alarm going off. Her cold wanted her to...

The American Red Cross is well-known for its disaster response. From wildfires to tornadoes, and everything in-between, Red Crossers don...

Home fires typically rise during the winter. This was certainly the case in throughout the state of Iowa this February as Red Cross...

Each year since 1943, the president of the United States has proclaimed that March is "Red Cross Month."

On August 10, 2020, an unprecedented storm tore through Iowa, destroying homes, trees, crops and power lines in its place. After learning...