With the Pandemic still weighing heavy on the Halloween holiday the local American Red Cross chapter is offering safer alternative to Trick-or-Treating.
Volunteers from the Central and Northern New York Chapter of the American Red Cross provided immediate assistance to six people displaced by a multi-family fire on Ferris Avenue in Utica on Sunday evening.
The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage because of an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Less than two weeks into the new year, the American Red Cross Eastern New York Region has already provided emergency aid to more than 70 people affected by house fires.
The American Red Cross has a critical need for blood donors of all types -- especially type O -- and platelet donors, to help replenish the blood supply after the holiday weeks.