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Around 50 people have been displaced after a fire broke out overnight in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. The fire started late Tuesday night at a condo building on the corner of Northampton and Reed streets in Roxbury. As of midnight, Boston fire was on scene fighting the flames. The department noted on social media there was heavy fire on the roof…

Twenty people are without a home after flames broke out Sunday at a triple-decker in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The Lawrence Fire Department responded to the multi-family home on Riverview Place to battle the blaze as temperatures soared into the 90s. A second alarm was ordered for manpower and crews rotated due to the intense heat and humidity. No one was injured,…

Russia says hundreds more fighters have emerged from the Mariupol stronghold where they made their last stand and surrendered. The Red Cross is working to register the fighters as prisoners of war, as the end of a key battle in the conflict draws closer. Meanwhile, in the first war crimes trial held by Ukraine, a captured Russian soldier testified Thursday...

The international Red Cross says it’s rolling out its largest-ever cash assistance program to help more than 2 million people in Ukraine or who have fled abroad cope with the fallout from Russia’s invasion.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it’s not sure that a planned delivery of aid into Mariupol and an evacuation of civilians out of the besieged Ukrainian city will happen Friday.

The American Red Cross of Massachusetts is recognizing ordinary people who’ve done extraordinary things in services of others at a Heroes Breakfast.

On Wednesday, March 23, the Boston community is going to recognize people who have done extraordinary things in service of others. It’s all part of the 2nd annual Boston Heroes Breakfast being held by the American Red Cross of Massachusetts. Local heroes who have shown exceptional humanitarian spirit in eight different categories will be honored at the virtual event. The…

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people.

The American Red Cross on Tuesday said it declared its first-ever “blood crisis” as it faces the worst national blood shortage in about a decade.

A grandmother from New Hampshire is spending her holidays helping victims of the recent devastating tornados in the Midwest and South. Deb Budney of Peterborough left the morning of Christmas Eve from Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, headed to Kentucky. Budney is a volunteer with the American Red Cross, and told NECN & NBC10 Boston she expects to work 16-hour days staffing…

A New Hampshire woman is spending her holidays helping the victims of the deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest and South.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland

A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored has exploded in northern Lebanon, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more with severe burns

People who get vaccinated against coronavirus don’t have to wait before donating blood in most cases, according to experts, but there are a few contingencies. “The simple answer is, there is no waiting time between vaccination and donation,” said Kim Cronin, manager of Massachusetts General Hospital’s donor services. This is “wonderful news” for donation centers, Cronin noted, as the...

Meet the heroes who work for Boston EMS amid the coronavirus pandemic.

This hero is honored for her vital work in the blood banking field.

This community impact hero is on a mission to make sure clients in the food insecurity space are never ashamed to ask for the service.

It takes more than a pandemic to stop the work of the Boston Fire Department.

The Red Cross of Mass. honors global citizens hero.

The Red Cross of Mass. recognizes good samaritan heroes in video series.