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As Puerto Rico starts assessing damage and trying to clean up from Hurricane Fiona, the destruction is bringing back horrible memories from five years ago Tuesday, when Hurricane Maria slammed the island. Now those in the tri-state are banding together to help the victims. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

Five years ago, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Once again, the island and its Caribbean neighbor, the Dominican Republic , have found themselves in the grip of severe weather due to the disastrous floods and landslides caused by Hurricane Fiona. In the aftermath of Fiona, the American Red Cross activated its volunteer service on Monday to help the affected communities....

Hurricane Fiona brought historic amounts of rain to Puerto Rico just 5 years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Dozens of Bronx families are out of a home tonight after a fast-moving fire destroyed their apartments. Melisa Colorado reports.

Nine people were hurt, the majority of them taken to hospitals, in a stubborn Bronx fire that engulfed a six-story building late Tuesday and totally destroyed several apartments before the flames were put out, authorities say. Fire officials say the blaze broke out on the third floor of the Davidson Avenue building shortly after 11 p.m. and quickly escalated to…

Russia says hundreds more fighters have emerged from the Mariupol stronghold where they made their last stand and surrendered. The Red Cross is working to register the fighters as prisoners of war, as the end of a key battle in the conflict draws closer. Meanwhile, in the first war crimes trial held by Ukraine, a captured Russian soldier testified Thursday...

The international Red Cross says it’s rolling out its largest-ever cash assistance program to help more than 2 million people in Ukraine or who have fled abroad cope with the fallout from Russia’s invasion.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it’s not sure that a planned delivery of aid into Mariupol and an evacuation of civilians out of the besieged Ukrainian city will happen Friday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people.

Days after a devastating fire took the lives of 17 adults and children living in a Bronx apartment building, lawmakers returned to introduce legislation designed to safeguard tenants against similar disasters in the future. Fire safety has been front and center since a malfunctioning space heater sparked a fire and sent suffocating smoke billowing throughout the building’s 19 floors. City…

Legislations at both local and federal levels are being introduced to address fire safety concerns following the deadly fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

The American Red Cross on Tuesday said it declared its first-ever “blood crisis” as it faces the worst national blood shortage in about a decade.

All year, the American Red Cross has jumped into action to help those in need, from Hurricane Ida to the pandemic. Mary Barneby, Regional CEO of American Red Cross in Greater New York joins Today in New York’s Rana Novini to discuss the Red Cross’ efforts throughout 2021.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland

The Red Cross announced that the organization continues to experience an emergency blood and platelet shortage that has caused the blood supply to drop to the lowest level post-summer in at least six years. Additionally, the Red Cross said that the number of blood donors decreased by about 10% as the summer came to an end. Although donations have dipped,…