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PORTLAND, Ore. – January 11, 2006 – Volunteers for the American Red Cross Oregon Trail Chapter responded to an apartment fire on Denney Rd. in Beaverton .

Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue paged the Red Cross to help families in two apartments at 5:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Four trained Red Cross volunteers including nurses arrived on the scene to provide cash assistance for lodging, meals, clothing and other replacement items.

Although only five Oregonian s were displaced by this disaster, losing a home to fire is just as significant to those families as the destruction of a hurricane or tornado. Red Cross volunteers provide local families with the same care, compassion and services that a family may receive when a larger disaster destroys a community. These smaller, less newsworthy disasters happen every 32 hours in the Portland area.

Residential fires enable local Red Cross volunteers to work with disaster victims and complete necessary paperwork to provide families with financial assistance, health services and mental health support. This experience, coupled with national disaster assignments and ongoing disaster training provided by the Oregon Trail Chapter, helps better prepare our community for a large disaster that could strike the Pacific Northwest .

All relief aid and services to our clients is provided free of charge, thanls to help from generous Oregonians who understand the needs created by fire. For more information about being a part of the largest humanitarian network in the world, visit
www.redcross-pdx.org

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American Red Cross, Oregon Trail volunteers respond to house fires every 32 hours on average.
To assist the Red Cross in providing disaster relief, please call (503) 528-5634.
To prepare yourself and your family for fire or other disasters, go to www.redcross-pdx.org