Red Cross ties N.C. coastline together

The Eastern North Carolina Region has grown.With the addition of New Hanover, Pender, Brunswick,Duplin and Columbus counties, the region incorporates the entire North Carolina coastline. This new regional concept will go into effect once a new regional executive is hired.

With hurricane response now consolidated into one region, the Red Cross will be better able to prepare for hurricanes and deploy resources all along the North Carolina coastline. A big job just got bigger.

Hurricane Irene last fall came ashore within the old regional boundaries, but other hurricanes in the past, particularly Hurricane Fran in 1996, have struck along the mouth of the Cape Fear River and moved northwestward through the Eastern North Carolina Region. With the Cape Fear Chapter, which had been under the regional supervision of the Triangle (Raleigh) Chapter, now part of the Eastern North Carolina Region, the entire coastline will be under the supervision of one regional executive.