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As many as 20 Red Cross volunteers from Connecticut will be in Florida over the coming days to help those hit hardest by Hurricane Ian.

Connecticut volunteers are helping with Hurricane Ian relief efforts in Florida. The Connecticut and Rhode Island region of the American Red Cross is sending more than 20 volunteers who will join over 500 volunteers from across the country assisting with hurricane response. “It is a need. When I see persons hurting, my natural instinct is to want to help them,”…

Red Cross Volunteer Denise Martinez, of Waterbury, is on standby to head down to the areas of Florida hardest hit by Hurricane Ian.

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...

Receiving blood transfusions changed a Plainville’s girls life as she battles leukemia.

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 American Red Cross is resuming testing blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 after a drop in blood donations supply. For a limited time, donated plasma with high levels of antibodies will be used for COVID-19 patients with weakened immune systems. According to the Red Cross, the recent surge of COVID-19 variations has led to a lack in blood…

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.

It’s certainly not baseball season yet, but lots of people made their way to Dunkin’ Donuts Park in Hartford Thursday. It was one of two locations for NBC and Telemundo Connecticut’s New Beginnings Blood Drive. As the country deals with a dangerously low blood supply, we’re so thankful for so many of you who have stepped up to the...

NBC and Telemundo paired up with the Hartford Yard Goats and The American Red Cross for our annual New Year’s Blood Drive. While there is still a blood shortage across the country, almost 200 hundred donated blood today. Appointments to donate blood can still be made.

The American Red Cross has been facing a blood shortage crisis, the worst since 2011.The Red Cross is encouraging people to donate now more than ever. Donors can give blood tomorrow at the Dunkin Donuts Park and West Hartford Town Hall.

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.

Adriana Donofrio, 6, is fighting a rare form of leukemia and blood transfusions are vital to keeping her alive during her treatment.

NBC Connecticut, Telemundo Connecticut, and the Red Cross are teaming up for a blood drive this Thursday.

Two employees of the Red Cross in Connecticut headed to Kentucky this week to help victims of the deadly tornadoes there.

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

The American Red Cross is opening several shelters for Connecticut residents in advance of Hurricane Henri, which is expected to make landfall Sunday. Some of the shelters opened at 8 p.m. Saturday and are available to anyone who needs assistance. There are also multiple shelters that will open Sunday. Officials with the Red Cross said they’ve also pre-positioned shelter...

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