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Show RED CROSS DANGER SQMFORID Thousands of Volunteers in New York Join NEW YORK, Feb. 13. Organization of several thousand trained volunteers, who will be constantly on call In case of disaster anywhere in metropolitan New York, has been completed by the New York county chapter of the Red Cross. It was announced today. Hhould there be a fire of great magnitude, mag-nitude, an explosion similar to that in , Wall street, a serious subway accident acci-dent or any similar disasrer tomorrow, this unit, with its trained nurses, ambulance am-bulance drivers, canteen workers and first aid workers. Is equipped and , ready to handle 10.00- casualties. Knormoui supplies of surgical dressings, dress-ings, garments of all sort, operating equipment, Jittera and cots lie in readiness readi-ness for immediate transportation at the Red Uroas warehouse, ol Seventh avenee. Dav aad nttht the garage at SO Kast Thirty-fifth street, housing nineteen Red Cross ambulanres, is open, and a garage force of seven men kt-.p the cars in constant repair for use In transporting possible disaster victims to the hospitals. To bring train-! n'irsei to the seen of disaster within the shortest time possible, the department of nursing service has evolved a plan whereby the call would he communicated f trt to the Central Ulub for Nurses, which houses 209 graduate nursea: then to the hospi t at a. with t he req ueat that they release their student nurses, and finally, if the need demands It. to t hose on the list of "hom defense nurses." which includes women who have had training but are not prac- ticing their profeasion. A special am-, bulance is reserved for transporting, the nurses to the place of disaster. i There are enough cans of meat, con- denspd milk, coffee and cookies stored i iiv In the Chelsea canteen, in Vst i Nineteenth street, to supply a small cltv. - Perhaps .the most Important members mem-bers of the entire unit are the "lookouts," "look-outs," who are repponslble for knowing know-ing of the occurrence of any disaster disas-ter and for notifying the emergency workers at sny hour of the day or night. |