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Disaster Services

Calloway County Chapter
DAT - Disaster Action Team

• Assistance with immediate disaster-caused needs like food, clothing, shelter, counseling (house fires to hurricanes)

• 2005 hurricanes

• 2008 hurricanes

• 72,883 local disasters in the USA in FY05

• Calloway DAT responded to 28 fires in FY08

• Since July 1st we have responded to over 13 home fires and one apartment complex fire - giving over $10,000.00 in assistance.

Calloway County Chapter
DSHR - Disaster Services Human Resources

The DSHR deploys volunteers with their special skills and talents to help victims of disasters locally and around the country.  For more information on volunteering for DSHR or DAT, click here.

Disaster Classes:

To take Disaster Courses and become a Disaster Volunteer please contact Jennifer Wilson.

Local Red Cross Volunteer Deploys
Bob West, 13 year volunteer with the Calloway County Chapter of the American Red Cross deployed yesterday (Monday, May 3rd) to report to the Nashville area to assist in Disaster Assessment from the effects of the floods over the weekend. "I will be supervising Disaster Assessment efforts to ensure that assistance is given by the American Red Cross to those affected by one of the most extensive disasters that the Nashville area has ever experienced. Much of the population has been evacuated from their homes, displaced from their homes and some homes are still submerged," said West. Local Red Cross Director, Jennifer Wilson states, "Bob is very experienced in this area as he has also deployed in the past six years to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike. He serves as a volunteer disaster trainer with the Red Cross in Calloway County to prepare our local Red Cross volunteers for disaster relief operations."

Your local Red Cross has extended the opportunity for you to support efforts like this during our 2010 Heroes for the Red Cross Campaign. If you did not have the opportunity to form a team during March, April and May to raise $1,000 for the local Red Cross, then be the first community member to send a donation to our office at 607 Poplar Street. Community members must support their community chapter in order for our four services to continue in the coming months. $5,000 more is needed in the next two weeks to reach $20,000 by May 18th, Primary Elections Day. Every dollar counts!

The American Red Cross Safe and Well Website

The American Red Cross Safe and Well Website provides a method for persons affected by a disaster to enter personal information regarding their general welfare in the “List Myself as Safe and Well” section of the website. Concerned family and friends can search the list of those who have registered themselves as “safe and well.”

In an emergency the Vial of Life will speak for you when you can't! Click below to find out more.....


Get your FREE Vial of Life Kit today! (Available at our office)

2009 Ice Storm Letters
Click here to read some of our COMMUNITY HEROES' ice storm letters.

http://www.redcross.org/beredcrossready