Whew!!!!
That jihadi map had me going for a moment....
Check this out- FWIW- I was trying to find that original list of cities from the Red Cross post disaster hiring-
This is new:
July 12, 2004
Organizations 29,178 | Opportunities 31,589 | Referrals 1,640,279
American Red Cross National Preparedness and Response Corps
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Mission Statement
To provide vital emergency assistance to victims and communities affected by disaster, and to increase preparedness in the areas of greatest need before disasters strike by recruiting, training, and supporting young adults who will provide American Red Cross direct service activities, integrated community outreach, and education focusing on homeland security.
Description
The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization, led by volunteers, and guided by its congressional charter and the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.The National Preparedness and Response Corps (NPRC), formerly the National Readiness and Response Corps, is an AmeriCorps program sponsored by the American Red Cross. The NPRC mission is to provide vital emergency assistance to victims and communities affected by disaster, and to increase preparedness in the areas of greatest need before disasters strike by recruiting, training, and supporting young adults who will provide American Red Cross direct service activities, integrated community outreach, and education focusing on homeland security.
Opportunities
Anchorage NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Baltimore NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Beverly NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Cedar Rapids NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Chicago NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Community Preparedness Corps Leominster MA Sun Aug 1, 2004 to Wed Jun 1, 2005
Corpus Christi NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Dallas NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Fort Myers NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Glendale NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Grand Rapids NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Greenwich/Stamford NPRC Member Fri Jul 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Los Angeles County NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Lowell NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Miami NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
New Orleans NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
New York NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Newburyport NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Pasadena NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Peoria NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Philadelphia NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Phoenix NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Richmond NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
San Francisco Bay Area NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Santa Barbara NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Thu Jun 16, 2005
Seattle NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Springfield NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Tampa NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Topeka NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Whittier NPRC Member Mon Aug 9, 2004 to Fri Jun 17, 2005
Address
National Service Unit, Emergency Preparedness Ed
8111 Gatehouse Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
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Contact
Carmel Comendador
Phone
(703) 206-7408
Fax
(703) 206-7673
Email
nprc@usa.redcross.org
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Heading out for a dunkin donuts break and will be back
What do you all make of the list of cities and the dates?
Any graphics hotshots able to put those cities in red on a map of the USA so we could see the clustering visually?
Please?
Do we know if this is unusual or do they periodocally advertise for employees? What would really be of interest is this: Is the Red Cross simply filling positions made available through attrition? Are these locations seeing a greater than average turnover in employees? Are any of these locations new? Or, is the Red Cross actually "increasing" their staff?
I spent some time today putting those cities on an outline map of the US.
Not sure I can post it, the site I use doesn't give very good resolution for most things.
It works out to be a line of towns up and down the east coast from Philadelphia up to north of Boston almost in a straight line, and there's a cluster around LA, then there's New Orleans, a coastal Texas town as well as Dallas, there's Seattle, coastal towns on either side of Florida, as well as a smattering of places directly in the mid-west, and around Lake Michigan (Chicago and Grand Rapids), and Phoenix.
The only towns I didn't put on that outline were the ones I wasn't sure about, the ones that could have been in several states, like Glendale (CA?), and Beverly (is that the one in MA?) and Springfield, as well as a couple of others.
Actually several of the ones I did put on the outline map are also kind of ambiguous to me, for example there were several places named Phoenix, but I'm assuming it's the one in AZ.
Maybe these locations are at a safe distance from the target area but within a few hour trip? People would have to be relocated out of the area of destruction.