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What Kind of Disasters Does the American Red Cross Respond to?

What Kind of Disasters Does the American Red Cross Respond to? (0:25)

The American Red Cross responds to both big disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes and also to small disasters like house fires. In this video, Gail McGovern, president and CEO of the American Red Cross, discusses the group's mission.

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The disasters that we respond to, 70,000 of them every single year. It's something, it's remarkable. There're about nine every week right here in Washington DC. And these could be single family house fires up to something as big as Katrina or the earthquake in Haiti, so disaster response also it's been part of our mission for about 100 years.