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<title><![CDATA[American Red Cross Mid-Florida Region]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A list of our most recent news articles]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ American Red Cross Launches New Holiday Giving Campaign  ]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4224&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[American Red Cross]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/23/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[American Red Cross Responds to Tragic Paisley Fire]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4218&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[<p>Dan Roll, Chapter Executive, Florida's Coast to Coast Chapter</p>]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/22/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sign Free Holiday Cards for Heroes]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4188&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[<p>Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/17/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Responds to Fire in Inverness]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4153&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Dan Roll, Chapter Executive]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/9/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Send a "Touch of Home" to our Armed Forces]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4152&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/10/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Making Preparations as Tropical Storm Ida Heads toward Gulf Coast]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4149&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Cheif Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/9/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Volunteers Help Three Families in 24 Hours]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4140&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[<font face="Arial">Dan Roll, Florida's Coast to Coast Chapter Executive</font>]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/6/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Safe and Well Site Available for Military Families]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4134&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/5/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Encourages Kids to Join the Scrub Club!]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With the H1N1 (swine flu) virus spreading around Florida and the country, and the seasonal flu season approaching, the American Red Cross is offering important educational tools for parents and teachers.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4128&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/5/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Holiday Mail for Heroes]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4105&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[American Red Cross]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[11/3/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Tips Will Ensure Safe Halloween Trips]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4070&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Phil Attinger, Communications Specialist]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/28/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cruz Roja ofrece el “truco” para mantenerse a salvo de la gripe y otros peligros en Halloween]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4069&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Cruz Roja Americana]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/28/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[American Red Cross Responds to Fire in Casselberry]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">American Red Cross disaster relief volunteers are assisting families affected by a fire on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">San Jose Circle</st1:address></st1:street> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Casselberry, the second large-scale fire in the last 48 hours.<br />
</st1:place></st1:city></span>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4065&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Affairs Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/27/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[American Red Cross responds during busy weekend of fires]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Disaster volunteers stayed busy over this past weekend with home fires on both ends of Florida's Coast to Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross, which covers seven counties in central Florida.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4052&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Phil Attinger, Communications Specialist]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/27/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Update: More Fire Victims Seek Help from the Red Cross]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The number of people seeking assistance from the American Red Cross after a devastating fire in a Kissimmee condominium community is now up to 30. Victims watched helplessly as their homes burned, but the Red Cross is extending shelter needs and providing other assistance for food and clothing.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4051&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/26/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Update: Kissimmee Condominium Community Fire]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4047&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/26/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Volunteers Respond to Multi-Unit Condo Fire in Kissimmee]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=4046&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/26/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Longtime Red Cross Executive to Retire]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tom Costello, executive director of the American Red Cross Polk County Chapter says "it's time" to move on to the next chapter of his life.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3997&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Phil Attinger and Laureen Martinez]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/15/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mid-Florida Red Cross Offers Tips for Caring for Someone with the Flu]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3959&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/12/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Information Technology specialist from Mid-Florida Region helping flood relief]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<span mce_style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:x-small;" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span mce_style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;">When Red Cross volunteers go to help people displaced by a hurricane, tornado, fire or flood, they need communications technology as much as anyone else. </span></span><span mce_style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:x-small;" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span mce_style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;">That&rsquo;s where <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1255127303_7">James Aldridge</span>, an 11-year volunteer with the American Red Cross, comes in.</span></span>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3954&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Phil Attinger]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/9/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Southwest Airlines Delivers “Comfort” to Americans Displaced by Disasters]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Southwest Airlines has partnered with the American Red Cross to help those displaced by disasters.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3953&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Erin Murphy]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/9/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Mental Health Volunteer Heads to Georgia Floods]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3910&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[10/1/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Local Red Cross Helps Southeast Residents Cope with Flooding Nightmare]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3893&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[9/30/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mid-Florida Red Cross Sends Two from Brevard County to Floods in Southeast]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3845&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Phil Attinger, Mid-Florida Region Communications Specialist]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[9/26/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Responds to Southeast Floods]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Red Cross Responds to Southeast Floods]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3823&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Erin Murphy]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[9/23/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[September is National Preparedness Month]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in -4.5pt 0pt -40.5pt" align="center"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in -4.5pt 0pt 0in" align="center"><em>Mid-Florida Region Offers Resources to Help Community during National Preparedness Month</em></div>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3757&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Laureen Martinez, Chief Public Relations Officer]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[9/8/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Volunteers respond to help after apartment fire]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Late Thursday night (Sept. 3, 2009), a fire damaged eight apartments and displaced 22 people in Kissimmee. Volunteers with the American Red Cross Mid-Florida Region responded and provided help.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3753&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[American Red Cross]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[9/4/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stay Safe with a Fire Prevention & Safety Checklist]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Protect yourself and your family by removing fire hazards, having working smoke alarms, and practicing fire escape plans. Use the American Red Cross Fire Prevention &amp; Safety Checklist to help you.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3729&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[American Red Cross]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[9/1/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross helps elderly man displaced when home destroyed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Red Cross in Highlands County was there to help an elderly man in Avon Park, who was left without a home after fire destroyed it on Saturday, Aug. 29.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3726&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Phil Attinger]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/29/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red Cross Survey Finds Public is Taking Steps to Prevent H1N1 Flu Virus]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3711&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[American Red Cross, National Headquarters]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/27/2009]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ana, Bill and Claudette Remind Central Floridians to Prepare Now]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.midfloridaredcross.org/detalle_noticias.asp?id=3642&IdCapitulo=9B23PSXU4I]]></link>
<author><![CDATA[Phil Attinger, Mid-Florida Region Communication's Specialist]]></author>
<pubDate><![CDATA[8/17/2009]]></pubDate>
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