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DAILY DISASTER RESPONSE REPORT Day(s) & Date(s): Tuesday September 2 , 2008 Type of Disaster(s): Single Family Fires Number of Family(ies): 5 Opened Case(s) 901’s: 5 Location of Incident(s): Address City Zip   Edmondson Avenue Baltimore 21223           Bonaparte Avenue Baltimore 21218           Covenlry Road Baltimore 21229           Chesterfield Avenue Baltimore 21213           North Glover Street Baltimore 21224 American Red Cross services provided: Food, clothes, shelter, referrals, comfort kits & CAC activation services were also provided. Responders: Last Name Function / Activity   Anderson On-Scene Responder   Ryan On-Scene Responder   Hernández Staff Support / Dispatcher   Rosoff On-Scene Responder   Suter On-Scene Responder   Fuss On-Scene Responder   Fries On-Scene Responder   Stroh Dispatcher / Activator   Hepp On-Scene Responder   Parry-Hill On-Scene Responder Other: NO other after hours calls received from 5:00 p.m. - 8:30 a.m.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2008 Linnea Anderson   410-624-2081, 443-829-7321 Baltimore County grandmother, Pat Shaw, is in Louisiana, deliberately sitting in Hurricane Gustav's path. She's one of many Red Cross emergency worker volunteers doing what they can to help. And this isn't the first time she's been called. Watch the video on Fox Channel 45. Preparations for and other coverage of Gustov can be found on WBAL Channel 11.     September 1, 2008 OVERNIGHT, RED CROSS SHELTERS 45,000 EVACUEES American Red Cross volunteers, including a contingent from Central Maryland provided shelter to Hurricane Gustav evacuees last night in eight states, caring for nearly 45,000 people.  The Baltimore area chapter joined forces in a massive Red Cross preparation effort during the past two weeks, moving 8 local workers, two mobile feeding trucks and mobilizing others to leave after the hurricane passes.  Combining organizational resources to open 500 shelters in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, this is the largest Red Cross relief effort since Hurricane Katrina.  The relief agency is prepared to offer food, shelter and emotional support to shelter 500,000 evacuees for a six-day period. You can help people affected by thousands of disasters across the country each year, disasters like the Hurricanes of 2008, by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. P.O. Box 64096, Baltimore, MD 21264.  Internet users can make a secure donation at www.redcross-cmd.org.  Or call 1-800-REDCROSS.   A note from our Executive Director Dear Friend of the Red Cross, Here at the Red Cross of Central Maryland your contribution goes into action long before hurricanes like Gustav and Hanna make landfall. This week we deployed two Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicles (ERV) to Alabama to set up before the storm gets close; deployed four volunteers -- Rebecca Tucker, Adam Zurgable, Mary Ann and Mike Prucnal; and have arranged for hundreds of volunteers to prepare to deploy if needed. The first four will be assigned to one of 200 mobile feeding trucks the Red Cross is stationing in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. When a reporter from WBAL TV asked one of the volunteers what the public can do to help she said, “Pray for us and for the people in the path of the storm, and consider making a financial contribution to the Red Cross.” On average it costs our chapter $1,200 to train a disaster volunteer and approximately $2,500 to deploy just one of the Red Cross ERVs (including housing and meals for volunteer drivers). We spend an additional $3,200 yearly for maintenance and fuel for one Emergency Response Vehicle. Here at home your support enables us to provide the resources needed to respond when disaster strikes. When Katrina hit, your Central Maryland chapter was instrumental in fundraising and trained/deployed the most volunteers. Your continued generosity allows us to bring emergency relief whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Thank you, Frank Miller, Executive Director Please remember to add the American Red Cross (redcross-email@usa.redcross.org) to your address book to continue receiving our updates in your mailbox!   Donate online To donate by phone: American Red Cross of Central Maryland (410) 624-2000 (800) 787-0091 To donate by mail: American Red Cross of Central Maryland 4800 Mt Hope Dr. Baltimore, MD 21215

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   August 28, 2008   CONTACT: Linnea Anderson 410-624-2081 LOCAL RED CROSS RAMPS UP FOR GUSTAV             Baltimore area Red Cross volunteer recruitment is beginning in the event that Hurricane Gustav comes ashore in the Gulf States.  Emergency services volunteers experienced in sheltering, feeding, health and mental health services are on stand-by and tomorrow two teams of local volunteers will be driving a pair of emergency response vehicles south to preposition for the storm.   Once they arrive at an Alabama staging area, they will stock the vehicles with food, water, clean up and comfort kits.             All American Red Cross disaster assistance is free, made possible by voluntary donations of time and money from the American people.  You can help the victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which enables the Red Cross to provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to victims of disaster.  Contributions to the Disaster Relief Fund may be sent to Red Cross of Central Maryland, P.O. Box 64096, Baltimore, MD, 21264-4096.  Internet users can make a secure online contribution by visiting www.redcross-cmd.org. ###