The American Red Cross is always available for emergency aid wherever you may be. They can sometimes help with emergency financial assistance and contacting individuals that will need to know where you are and what’s happening. The American Red Cross can also help in times of emergency. Quick communications with home about family emergencies is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including verification of death or serious illness of immediate family, birth announcements to fathers deployed overseas, and health and welfare reports resulting from a lack of communication over a long period of time.