Your Red Cross Update

By Jim Burns

Luana Cobb and her son, Daniel, take a break in the cafeteria at a Red Cross shelter in Santa Rosa.

Sitting in an American Red Cross Shelter three long days after a fast-moving wildfire forced them to flee their Santa Rosa mobile home, Luana Cobb and her son Daniel were slowly coming to grips with their new reality on Wednesday. Read more

By Jim Burns

Sam and Mickie Orchard are shown inside a Red Cross shelter in Santa Rosa.

Sam and Mickie Orchard had their bags packed on a Sunday night in October, prepared to leave their Santa Rosa home the next day for a vacation in Palm Springs. Instead, shortly after 2 a.m. on that Monday, October 9, the couple took an unplanned trip to a shelter the American Red Cross opened at the Finley Community Center in town. Read more