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Disaster Assistance
If you are a recent victim of a fire or other disaster, please call the local Red Cross 24-hour service at 410-624-2000 or 1-800-787-0091.
Services to Armed Forces
The American Red Cross of Central Maryland also offers assistance to military personnel and their families in times of emergency through SAF (Services to the Armed Forces). These services include information and referral, emergency communication, financial assistance.
If you have a military emergency, please call 410-624-2000 or 800-696-3873.
International Services - Restoring Family Links
Each year, armed conflict and natural disasters separate millions of people from their families, when they are needed most. Red Cross helps families reconnect around the world - from delivering personal messages to families separated across international boundaries by war and civil unrest to re-establishing communications for family members separated by war and disaster. For more information, or to locate a family member overseas, contact our International Services department at (410) 624-2000, or contact us online.
International Services - National Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center
As part of our tracing services, the American Red Cross established the Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center, a national clearinghouse for United States residents seeking the fates of loved ones missing since World War II and its aftermath. Red Cross searches have provided previously unknown information on thousands of missing loved ones to families who have been searching for answers since World War II. For more information, or to locate a family member, contact our Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center at (410) 624-2090.
Blood Services
The Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Blood Services Region provides life-giving blood to more than 80 area hospitals, collecting some 1,300 units of whole blood each day. Each unit of whole blood from a single donor can be separated into components and used to save three or four lives.
The Red Cross holds blood drives in cooperation with businesses, churches and community groups daily to meet the needs of the community. (There are also donor centers in locations near you.) You can be a blood donor if you're at least 17 years of age and weigh at least 110 pounds. Regular donors can give the gift of life every 56 days. To ensure the safety of the blood supply, Red Cross laboratories perform seven different tests on all units of donated blood.
Blood products provide life-saving help to people in many different circumstances. Patients suffering from cancer, aplastic anemia or other blood disorders depend on hemapheresis donors for their treatments. The donor's blood is filtered through a special machine to extract platelets during the hemapheresis donation process.
To donate blood, or for further information on Blood Services, click here.
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