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The Red Cross provides disaster education presentations to individuals in the community to prevent prepare for and recover from disasters or other life-threatening emergencies. The American Red Cross responds to disasters, including home fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, hazardous materials spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters. The most common of these disasters is fires.

The purpose is to meet the immediate disaster-caused needs of individuals, families, and communities.

Regional VOADs coordinate with their local agencies, organizations, and communities to help plan, prepare, respond to and recover from disasters. SEVA VOAD Officers President - Anthony Lloyd, Operation Blessing Treasurer - Joe Collins, Your Not For Profit Controller Secretary - Chef Thomas Yager, Mercy Chefs

Provides disaster relief and disaster preparedness for residents of the Rappahannock area.

Provides emergency assistance to families who have been displaced from their home due to fire. Service is initiated by Fire/Police dispatch in territory jurisdictions.

Provide relief to victims of disaster. Provide disaster community education programs. Provide relief to victims in single-family fires. Work with city government to maintain disaster plan for city-wide coverage.

Disaster services include but are not limited to emergency food, clothing, and shelter. These services are provided to disaster victims and their families according to their disaster caused needs.

Responds to disasters occurring within communities 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Provides a plan for recovery that covers the basic needs of emergency lodging, food, clothing, medications, and crisis counseling, as well as other resources available to meet the emergency needs of family and individuals

Prepares the nation for all hazards and effectively manages federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident. FEMA also initiates pro active mitigation activities, trains first responders, and manages the National Flood Insurance Program and the U.S. Fire Administration. To contact the VA Regional Office in Penndel, PA, please call (267)560-5057.

Relief to victims of disaster that need emergency food, clothing, and shelter. This program provides temporary basic housing and shelter on a emergency basis to prevent homelessness for individuals and families in crisis. Housing includes referrals and information and location term living arrangements for people who require a moderate-extensive amount of support to maintain independent living conditions.

Plans for potential emergencies and to respond to bioterrorism, infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies.

The Disaster Services program is charged with responding to the needs of victims of disasters throughout our service area. Such disasters include, but are not limited to, single and multiple family fires, floods, winter storms, and transportation mishaps. In responding to verifiable emergencies, volunteer Disaster Action Team members are authorized to provide emergency food, clothing and shelter to assist families to again become self-sufficient, and to reduce stress and hardships. Offers disaster preparedness services and disaster training classes.

The Southwest Virginia Medical Reserve Corps is a cadre of volunteer health care professionals and community members trained to respond and assist the local Emergency Response Systems in the 13 counties and 3 cities that comprise Southwestern Virginia. Throughout the region, citizens are prepared to assist with public health crises in the Lenowisco, Cumberland Plateau and/or Mount Rogers Health Districts.

Provides shelter, food, emotional support, health services, relief supplies and other forms of support to people impacted by disasters. Work with individuals, families, businesses and communities to provide recovery assistance in the weeks and months following a disaster.

Provides a humanitarian organization, led by volunteers, that provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. It does this through services that are consistent with its congressional charter and the principles of the International Red Cross movement.