Penn State, Rutgers compete in Big Ten blood drive
The Big Ten conference is getting college students involved in the fight to ease the nation's critical blood shortage.
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The Big Ten conference is getting college students involved in the fight to ease the nation's critical blood shortage.
The Southwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross held the 2025 Power of Red: A Celebration of Heroes on Wednesday at the Heinz History Center.
Nonprofit groups are working to distribute essential supplies to those impacted by the fires across the Los Angeles area.
Workers from the Pittsburgh-area branches of the Red Cross and the Salvation Army are in Florida for Hurricane Milton.
President Biden told Floridians his administration would offer support "for as long as it takes to rescue, recover and rebuild."
The American Red Cross has sent droves of volunteers to go help recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene. Some of those people are from Western Pennsylvania.
Volunteers and members of the American Red Cross will be teaming up to install free smoke alarms during several Sound the Alarm events across Western Pennsylvania.
Two people were able to escape safely when their home in South Strabane Township caught fire.
Blood donors are needed now more than ever as the Red Cross is facing an emergency shortage.
A working smoke detector can be the difference between life and death.
One person has died and others, including a four-year-old, are recovering after they were rescued from a house fire in Westmoreland County Saturday morning.
More than a dozen volunteers, including six from Western Pennsylvania, are headed to Florida.
While 85-percent of American adults claim they can swim, over half of those adults can't perform basic water skills.
Nearly 2,000 volunteers across the country came together to help and some of them were from Pittsburgh.
Nearly 2,000 volunteers from across the country came together to help those impacted by Hurricane Ian, including two men from here in Pittsburgh.
The fire appeared to have started on the third floor.
The fire happened at the Fifth Avenue Condominiums.
Friday's storms left several displaced in Westmoreland County.
Volunteers went door to door to make sure local families had working smoke detectors as part of the "Sound The Alarm" event.
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has many Americans wondering how they can help the war-torn country.
The Red Cross is sounding the alarm as it faces a national blood crisis, and Vitalant is too. The local blood bank gives blood to UPMC and AHN.
A Pittsburgh Red Cross volunteer ditched her Christmas plans to help run a shelter in Kentucky after the devastating tornadoes last week.
An early morning fire at an apartment complex in Stowe Township has left five people without a home.
Five people are being assisted by the Red Cross and a firefighter was taken to the hospital following a house fire in Greenfield.
Several neighborhoods are picking up the pieces after Wednesday's flooding.
