Red Cross

Hundreds of local volunteers are heading south to respond to Tropical Storm Ian. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

People and resources from our area are heading south to respond to Tropical Storm Ian. Though it may be days before the storm makes landfall, it’s not too early to prepare.

The Red Cross and Virginia Task Force 1 are heading to Florida to help with rescue efforts as Tropical Storm Ian heads towards the coast. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Russia says hundreds more fighters have emerged from the Mariupol stronghold where they made their last stand and surrendered. The Red Cross is working to register the fighters as prisoners of war, as the end of a key battle in the conflict draws closer. Meanwhile, in the first war crimes trial held by Ukraine, a captured Russian soldier testified Thursday...

The international Red Cross says it’s rolling out its largest-ever cash assistance program to help more than 2 million people in Ukraine or who have fled abroad cope with the fallout from Russia’s invasion.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it’s not sure that a planned delivery of aid into Mariupol and an evacuation of civilians out of the besieged Ukrainian city will happen Friday.

The Red Cross is helping people who were displaced after last week’s explosion and fire at the Friendly Garden Apartments.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people.

The American Red Cross on Tuesday said it declared its first-ever “blood crisis” as it faces the worst national blood shortage in about a decade.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland

A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored has exploded in northern Lebanon, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more with severe burns

A fire ripped through an apartment complex in Prince George’s County Tuesday night. Everyone survived, but News4’s Cory Smith reports dozens of residents will spend the end of the year trying to start over.

The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly nearing a decision to issue an emergency use authorization to use convalescent plasma for treating coronavirus patients. Unfortunately, the supply of plasma is running low.

The American Red Cross is offering coronavirus antibody tests to people who donate blood. The Red Cross says when the pandemic hit, blood donations plummeted, but the supply lasted because hospitals suspended elective surgeries. “But now that those surgeries are back on the books, we’re in an urgent situation right now,” said Regina Bratton Boothe of the Red Cross....

The American Red Cross is offering coronavirus antibody tests to people who donate blood.

Plasma is precious for people sick with COVID-19. The liquid portion of blood taken from survivors of the disease may be rich in antibodies that doctors hope can speed up recovery for the sickest patients.

Some people in the D.C. region who have recovered from the coronavirus are now hoping their plasma might help save the very ill. Loudoun County, Virginia, resident Amy Bobchek is back to work, from home, after spending a couple of weeks sick with COVID-19. She began to feel sick in mid-March, shortly after she returned from a business trip...

Some people in the D.C. region who have recovered from the coronavirus are now hoping their plasma might help save the very ill.

The American Red Cross and blood banks across the nation are putting out an urgent call for donors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As the virus spreads and events and businesses close, donations are dropping, dangerously in some areas.

A D.C. woman tells Shomari Stone about the dangerous escape from an apartment fire in which she dropped her grandsons from a third-story window.