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While the focus has been on COVID-19 prevention going into the Thanksgiving holiday, there is one danger that exists every year.

With the Pandemic still weighing heavy on the Halloween holiday the local American Red Cross chapter is offering safer alternative to Trick-or-Treating.

The American Red Cross is allowing donors to give blood and get tested for COVID-19 antibodies in one "shot."

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.

The American Red Cross is worried that fears of the spreading Coronavirus may lead to a shortage in their blood supply.

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.

Currently there is a summer blood shortage. The American Red Cross locally needs your help.

Giving blood is good for your own health, and critical to the health of others.

In preparation for the anticipated relief efforts from Florence, The Eastern New York Region of the American Red Cross deployed 21 local volunteers to assist.

The Red Cross is starting a new program called 'Sound The Alarm' where free smoke detectors will be installed in high-risk neighborhoods.

As the rain continues to fall and the flood waters continue to rise from Hurricane Harvey in Houston Texas, thousands are being forced from their homes. The American Red Cross is helping and you can too.