Evacuees

Salvation Army Supporting Shelter and Evacuation for Hurricane Ike With Meals for Thousands of Evacuees and Emergency Workers

Warns Residents That Storm's Path Threatens Major Population Center and Heightens Danger ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Salvation Army today is supporting the evacuation and shelter operations ordered by the State of Texas prior to the anticipated landfall of Hurric...

Red Cross Advises Evacuees to Stay Put Until Conditions Are Safe

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Although what was once Hurricane Gustav has weakened to a tropical depression, the American Red Cross urges all evacuees to stay away from affected areas until authorities deem it safe to return. "We know people are eager to go home, especially ...

Gustav: World Vision Teams Assist Evacuees in Jackson and Dallas, Prepare Response

- Agency coordinating with hundreds of churches, community groups hosting and helping evacuees - World Vision's emergency supplies ready in Mississippi, Dallas; more on standby in Los Angeles, Denver, Pittsburgh, Seattle and beyond - Relief director: Faith community...

San Diego's SeQual Technologies Loans 35 Portable Oxygen Units to Evacuees at Qualcomm Stadium

Expert to Demonstrate Use, Offer Free Training on Site SAN DIEGO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- SeQual Technologies Inc., a San Diego-based medical equipment manufacturer which develops oxygen systems known worldwide for their reliability, quality, revolutionary design and economy, has loan...

Help for California Fire Evacuees Possible Through Partnership for Prescription Assistance

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) President and CEO Billy Tauzin issued the following statement regarding the California wildfires: "Californians who have been affected by the recent wildfires -- and who are uninsured or underinsu...

ICERx.org Activated to Provide Emergency Access to Prescription Medication Information for Hurricane Ike Evacuees

TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of the President's declaration of a state of emergency, ICERx.org (In Case of Emergency prescription history service) has been activated to provide licensed physicians and pharmacists caring for Hurricane Ike evacuees with private, secure onlin...

ICERx.org Activated to Provide Emergency Access to Prescription Medication Information for Hurricane Gustav Evacuees

TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of the President's declaration of a state of emergency, ICERx.org (In Case of Emergency prescription history service) has been activated to provide licensed physicians and pharmacists caring for Hurricane Gustav evacuees with private, secure onl...

America's Second Harvest Provides Emergency Food and Water to Tropic Storm Fay Evacuees

CHICAGO, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network is prepared to provide food, water, grocery products and cleaning supplies to member food banks in Florida that serve people affected by Tropical Storm Fay. The network stages supplies thro...

Los Angeles Red Cross Aids Thousands of Wildfire Evacuees

10,000 People Receive Meals and Snacks LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Southern California wildfires continue to devastate areas of Southern California, the American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles has two shelters open to provide food, shelter and emotional suppo...

Katrina Evacuees Made To Remain In Toxic Air

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of America is under disgrace. According to congressional lawmakers, the FEMA stamped on warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane evacuees. Those housed in government-provided trailers were exposed to levels...

Evacuees in Medical Technology

Senator Frist and Convention Delegates Support AIDS-Affected People Around the World, Raise Funds for Gustav Evacuees

Delegates Join World Vision, ONE to Build Hope and Give Help MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Delegates to the Republican Party Convention are sending a message to the most vulnerable communities around the world including evacuees in the Gulf Coast region and those suffer...

Evacuees in Biological News

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...gher-exposed Chernobyl populations, i.e., emergency workers from 1986-1987, evacuees and residents of the most contaminated areas. This number contains both the...er and leukemia among the 200,000 emergency workers from 1986-1987, 116,000 evacuees and 270,000 residents of the most contaminated areas (total about 600,000)....

Evacuees in Biological Technology

The DEMO / Katrina Challenge

...phones," she wrote. The seed on an idea: The Katrina Mobile Phone Project. The modest goal: Deliver 500 pre-paid cell phones into the hands of Katrina evacuees in the next two weeks. Life in the Astrodome, as you'll learn reading my friend's accounts, is a daily grind of identifying and attempting to conne...

Healthcare needs of hurricane-hit region being monitored by West Allis company's system

...the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) engaged EMSystem to provide real-time information regarding healthcare facilities to respond to evacuees across the country in need of medical and mental health care, services that EMSystem donated. "We were probably the only company in a position to p...