{"id":373482,"date":"2026-10-15T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373482\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:30:09","slug":"american-red-cross-of-western-new-york-preparing-volunteers-for-disaster-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373482\/","title":{"rendered":"American Red Cross of Western New York preparing volunteers for disaster relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Henrietta, N.Y. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/American Red Cross of Western New Yor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Red Cross of Western New York<\/a> invited volunteers to boot camp on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The training prepares people to deploy and support disaster relief operations locally and nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers make up 90% of the Red Cross workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Red Cross volunteers provide critical disaster relief services such as shelter, supplies, and emotional and mental health support during disasters like hurricanes, wildfires, and floods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re finding is that we are in a state of continuous disaster response,&#8221; said Jessica Conte, disaster workforce engagement manager for the American Red Cross of Western New York. &#8220;Across our local footprint, community, with home fires, we&#8217;re responding pretty much every day. And then at the national level\u2014 the hurricanes, floods, tornadoes\u2014those are constant.<\/p>\n<p>Deployments typically last two weeks, and the Red Cross has an ongoing need for health care professionals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/local\/new-york\/western-new-york\/volunteer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/rochester-restaurants-join-forces-for-red-cross-dine-for-disaster-relief-event-fire-displacement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rochester restaurants join forces for Red Cross &#8216;Dine for Disaster Relief&#8217; event<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/american-red-cross-of-western-new-york-celebrates-the-reopening-of-historic-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Red Cross of Western New York celebrates the reopening of historic site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henrietta, N.Y. \u2014 The American Red Cross of Western New York invited volunteers to boot camp on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-373482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}