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Each year around the country, American Red Cross Chapters respond immediately to more than 70,000 disasters, including house or apartment fires (the majority of disaster responses), hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous materials spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters.

During the last 12 months, the Savannah Chapter of the Red Cross responded to 489 families that were affected by disasters right here in our own communities. Trained Red Cross volunteers met the immediate disaster caused needs of these families by providing food, shelter, clothing and health and mental health services to address their basic human needs. These volunteers are on-call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to reach out to our neighbors in need.