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Disaster Preparedness

A fire breaks out in your kitchen. A flash flood rips through your house. A wind storm causes a sudden evacuation. Are you prepared?

The SUP Red Cross advises three actions for any person or family to get prepared.

1. Make a Preparedness Kit

2. Make a Family Plan

3. Be Informed

These three items can help you become a survivor instead of a victim. Just think - would you be ready to leave your house at a moments notice?

Please call our offices for more information about disaster preparedness.


Disaster Recovery:

A disaster that effects your home and family can be devastating and overwhelming. The Red Cross can help you recover and move on from you time of need.

The Superior Upper Peninsula provides our disaster victims with:

1. Lodging up to three nights

2. Food

3. Clothing

4. Counseling

5. Referral Services.

We work closely with toehr community agencies such as Salvation Army, Goodwill, St.Vincent de Paul, and Pigs-n-Heat to provide the best assistance our community can offer.

Remember, you are not alone...


Disaster Action Teams

Although the American Red Cross is not a government agency, its authority to provide disaster relief was formalized when, in 1905, the Red Cross was chartered by Congress to "carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same." The Charter is not only a grant of power, but also an imposition of duties and obligations to the nation, to disaster victims, and to the people who generously support its work with their donations.

Red Cross disaster relief focuses on meeting people's immediate emergency disaster-caused needs. When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross provides shelter, food, and health and mental health services to address basic human needs. In addition to these services, the core of Red Cross disaster relief is the assistance given to individuals and families affected by disaster to enable them to resume their normal daily activities independently.

To help meet the needs of disaster victims our Chapter has a Disaster Action Team in every county we represent! Victims of disaster can contact us 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year when in a time of need.


Please call (906) 228-3659 if you or someone you know is a victim of a disaster and needs assistance or if you would like to volunteer to help victims of disasters in your community and across the country.