Emergency Disaster Relief
The American Red Cross South Florida Region provides disaster response services to Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Fire is the number one disaster the Chapter responds to every year. When a fire or other disaster occurs, the Red Cross staff and volunteers are on the scene immediately, providing families and individuals with emergency social services, warm meals, a place to sleep, and clothing. Red Cross disaster relief focuses on meeting people's immediate emergency needs, enabling those affected to get back on their feet. Your local Red Cross*:

• responded to 556 local disasters, including 515 fires
• gave direct assistance (food, clothing and shelter) to 966 families, valuing $404,675
• gave community disaster education to 191,110 people

Click here to view the Local Disaster Response map.  Once there, click on the Florida link.  A pop up with appear that will allow you to see responses in both Broward and Miami-Dade & The Keys.

*All figures are from Fiscal Year 2009, July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009