Red Cross Video Available

Red Cross Video Available

    Footage Shows Red Cross Workers Responding to Southern California Fires    WHAT:   B-roll from Southern California    WHEN:   Thursday, October 25, 2007           4 p.m. EDT    WHERE:  Satellite AMC-1  Transponder 19C    The American Red Cross will transmit 20 minutes of footage of its   workers on the scene of the wildfires in Southern California. The   footage will be transmitted twice.     :52        Service Delivery - Saugus, CA   2:39        Shelter - Saugus High School, CA   4:11        Shelter - National Orange Show Fairgrounds,               San Bernardino, CA   

Note: The video will contain a discreet Red Cross logo in the upper right corner.

As of midnight Wednesday, the Red Cross was operating 24 shelters in Southern California with a population of 6,001 people. The Red Cross continues to extend offers of supplies and expertise to other shelters in the area. In addition, thousands of cots, blankets and toiletry kits have arrived. Fifty mobile feeding vehicles have arrived, and 25 more are en route. The Red Cross has almost 3,000 workers on site in Southern California, including volunteers from all 50 states.

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Source: American Red Cross

Web Site: http://www.redcross.org/

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