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Insight: Red Cross Response To Sandy Fails To Meet Expectations


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2012-11-14T051326Z_1_CBRE8AD0E1Z00_RTROPTP_2_STORM-SANDY-REDCROSS.JPGROCKAWAY PARK, New York (Reuters) - Noreen Ellis begged the American Red Cross for help a few days after Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast. A 90-year-old bedbound woman living on Ellis's block needed to be moved from the Rockaways, an eight-mile long, narrow spit of land in New York City, to a shelter with heat and electricity. "I said, 'This woman needs to be transported. Can you help?' And the Red Cross said, 'We don't do that,'" Ellis said. ...

 

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