Red Cross

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 grandmother is sad her home was destroyed by fire but grateful her grandsons are OK.

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.

News4’s Shomari Stone spoke to a man who ran to help when a grandmother threw two children out of a window during a fire at a D.C. apartment building.

Several people were injured Friday when a fire erupted in a Montgomery County apartment building, firefighters say.

Several children and adults had to go to a hospital after a fire broke out the morning after Thanksgiving in Gaithersburg, Maryland. One man jumped off the top floor of the apartment building to escape the flames. News4’s Mark Segraves reports dozens of people are displaced.

A Worcester, Massachusetts, fire lieutenant died early Wednesday as he and his crew attempted to save a baby and others from a raging fire. Chief Michael Lavoie said in a press conference that Lt. Jason Menard, a father of three, succumbed to his injuries after his “heroic efforts” to save people in the four-alarm fire at 7 Stockholm Street.

The devastation wrought by Dorian — and the terror it inflicted during its day-and-a-half mauling of the Bahamas — came into focus Wednesday as the passing of the storm revealed a muddy, debris-strewn landscape of smashed and flooded-out homes on Abaco and Grand Bahama islands. The official death toll from the strongest hurricane on record ever to hit the country...

The desire to have a selfie as a souvenir from running with the bulls in Spain turned into a near-death experience an American lawyer says he’ll never forget.

A fire ripped through a Frederick, Maryland, townhome complex Friday morning, leaving seven families with nowhere to live. Darcy Spencer reports.

A geyser from a water main break in Maryland created a lot of damage to townhomes. News4’s Cory Smith spoke to homeowners who say it was just the latest in what’s been a week of bad breaks at their complex.

A family of four is safe after a fast-moving blaze ripped through a Maryland apartment complex Tuesday morning.

A couple had to think quick during a frightening fire at their apartment building. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports their baby is safe after they droped him from their balcony into neighbors’ arms.

New Zealand’s foreign minister confirmed Monday that a New Zealand nurse has been held captive by the Islamic State group in Syria for almost six years, information long kept secret for fear her life might be at risk. The status of nurse and midwife Louisa Akavi, now 62, is unknown, but her employer, the International Committee of the Red Cross,...