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Canadian Red Cross seeks local support

A disaster has many different phases to it, where the need for relief seen a huge increase at the right time after the disaster, which is where the Red Cross comes in. The levels of the Red Cross disaster response to include assistance with personal disaster. It involves a home or building, as in the case of a house fire. "It's a catastrophe on a small scale and the Red Cross provides basic needs for 72 hours after the disaster. It could be food, shelter, clothing.When a disaster occurs as small, Red Cross was notified by police, firefighters, victims' services or the customer himself and volunteers are on call will be sent to help this family, "said Fairweather of trained volunteers help provide disaster relief. The team of disaster management in Alberta for the Red Cross has 200 trained volunteers with eight offices, including Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Brooks and Standoff. The southern region of Alberta volunteers helped 100 clients involving 40 cases.There were 400 hours spent on the answers with two players in each answer, making for 800 hours of volunteer work on disaster response personal. "We do not duplicate services. We focus on the gaps and provide services for the first 72 hours after we refer people to social services," said Fairweather. "We have good to us we submit to various suppliers and we have limits. For hotels, we do not pay for room service or long distance ... for groceries, we do not pay for junk food. This is for you base when you are recovering from a disaster."" Red Cross may be asked to open a shelter or reception center reunionification provide family support for recovery operations or to provide food, housing, personal services, "said Fairweather. "To be activated at this level, we would have to be activated by the municipality or municipal district. If it is a single parent or apartment just react. "South last summer floods in Alberta is an example of a multi-municipal disaster in which so far the Red Cross continues to help 24 families in a phase of long-term recovery.Red Cross is also involved in disaster preparedness in order to minimize loss of life, harm reduction and reducing the loss of labor for the duration and disaster recovery.