{"id":805736,"date":"2026-07-16T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805736\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:47:09","slug":"red-cross-opens-donation-campaign-for-ottawa-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805736\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross opens donation campaign for Ottawa flood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Red Cross is now taking donations from the public to help thousands of people in Ottawa affected by flash flooding on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Waves of severe thunderstorms lashed the capital on Canada Day afternoon, dropping as much as 167 millimetres of rain on some neighbourhoods west of the core in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>As of the updates provided at Wednesday&#8217;s city council meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/ottawa-canada-day-july-1-flood-support-city-council-9.7270849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 6,000 flooded basements<\/a> had been reported to the city.<\/p>\n<p>City councillors approved a motion from Mayor Mark Sutcliffe to enter into a formal partnership with the Canadian Red Cross to become the lead non-governmental organization for flood recovery.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Red Cross announced the start of its &#8220;2026 Ottawa Floods Appeal&#8221; donation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It said money will go toward relief, recovery and resilience, preparation for future natural disasters and supporting partner agency work.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement is for six months and the city will contribute a maximum of $400,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-805736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}