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AMERICAN RED CROSS

If you need to contact a military member

for emergency purposes, please call your local Red Cross chapter. Use operator

assistance if necessary, or you may also find your local Red Cross chapter

telephone number by visiting http://www.redcross.org, and entering your zip code at “Find Your Local Red Cross.”  Today’s American

Red Cross http://www.redcross.org is

keeping pace with the changing military.

Featuring the

latest in computer and telecommunications technology, the American Red Cross

Emergency Service Center delivers around-the-clock emergency communication

services to active duty military personnel, and to their families. While serving 1.4 million active duty

personnel, the Red Cross Get To Know Us Before You Need Us campaign reaches out

to an additional 1.5 million members of the National Guard and the Reserves

living in almost every neighborhood in America. American Red Cross Emergency

Services are available to all members of the armed services, and to their

families. Both active duty and community-based military can count on the Red

Cross to provide emergency communications, emergency financial assistance,

counseling, veterans assistance and aid in the field where Red Cross workers are

deployed to serve with America’s military.

The American Red Cross emergency

messages provide military personnel and commanders with fast, reliable

information helping them make important decisions such as emergency leave for

family matters.

If you have a family emergency, the Red

Cross will ask you for specific information about your deployed Guardsman. Your will need a copy of the Guardsman’s

order which will have the individual’s name, rank, unit, social security number

and duty location.

If you need to report the loss of a family

member, you will need to provide the following information to the Red

Cross:

  • The name of the deceased
  • The name of the funeral home and the telephone

    number

  • The attending physician’s name and telephone

    number

If you need to report a severe illness of a

family member, you will need to provide the following information to the Red

Cross:

  • The name of the individual
  • The name of the hospital/hospice
  • The attending physician’s name and telephone

    number

  • It will be helpful to the Red Cross if you inform

    medical personnel that a Red Cross representative may be contacting them and

    will identify themselves as such

If you need to report the birth of a new family member, you

will need to provide the following information to the Red

Cross:

  • Name of person giving birth
  • Date and time of birth
  • Name of hospital/birthing

    center

  • Attending physician and telephone

    number

Even if you do not have all of the above information, contact the Red

Cross and they will work with you to get verified information to the military

command.