Red Cross

San Diego County residents can now sign up to receive free home fire safety consultations and smoke alarm installations, the American Red Cross of San Diego and Imperial counties announced.

A San Diego parks & rec worker’s quick thinking saved a life last year at the convention center.

The 18th annual event honored seven people and a dog for their embodiment of “the mission and spirit of the Red Cross by saving lives and creating safer, stronger and more resilient communities.”

At Steele Canyon High School in Spring Valley, an evacuation point set up in the gymnasium gave Valley Fire evacuees a place to eat, visit nurses, use the bathrooms and keep cool, but complications presented by the coronavirus pandemic forced them to rest their heads outside or elsewhere. “The temporary evacuation point is not a shelter, it is a rest…

If evacuees can’t camp in the parking lot of evacuation sites, the Red Cross will find them shelter in hotels. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea explains.

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.

San Diego County leaders and fire officials have developed a unique evacuation plan in case a wildfire threatens homes in the midst of a pandemic that requires people to stay six feet apart.

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.

The American Red Cross of San Diego has made a few changes to its blood drive protocol in order to follow government guidelines amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Red Cross is hosting a blood drive in El Cajon while following social distancing guidelines and maintaining safety.

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.

NBC 7’s Monica Dean talked with Red Cross dietitian, Roxy Mendoza, about tips for a healthy game day on Super Bowl Sunday.

NBC 7’s Catherine Garcia talks with Melissa Altman from the Red Cross about tips to keep you and your family safe during winter weather.

At least 38 units at an apartment complex in Nestor were damaged after a creek overflowed Thanksgiving Day. Families spent Friday trying to clean up and salvage what they could.

Family and friends gathered at a Lakeside home for the Thanksgiving weekend but were shocked to wake up to a fire ripping through their building the night before the holiday even started.

Just before Thanksgiving could begin, a family was forced out of their home. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more.

At least four units in a Carlsbad apartment complex were damaged in a fire. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has more.

Three firefighters were hurt while battling a fire at a home in Julian on Monday night.

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.

NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez explains why San Diego County is hearing a presentation on the status of wildfire protection plans.