• Delivered 55,912 hours of service from 500+ volunteers with a dollar value of $1,245,840
• Helped 866 people who were victims of house fires
• Provided thousands of hours of CPR/First Aid training
- Trained 5,230 people in CPR and First Aid
- Trained 286 Lifeguards
- 105 young people received babysitting training
• Provided 1,594 services to military families through our Service to the Armed Forces department
• Supported 9 Disaster Action Teams (DAT) as first responders to disasters within the Chapter’s jurisdiction
• 200 volunteers helped patients and families at area hospitals
• Dispatched 30 volunteers who worked a total of 319 days to assist in major disasters across the country

The Greater Chattanooga Area American Red Cross serves more than 725,000 people in 13 counties, which includes those assisted in the four counties served by the Hiwassee American Red Cross chapter in Cleveland, TN.

History of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Chapter

The Greater Chattanooga Area Chapter received its charter three months after the United States entered World War I in 1917 and began as a surgical dressing unit making bandages and dressings for wounded soldiers. Volunteers provided outstanding services through the railroad canteen located at the terminal station, which is now the Chattanooga Choo-Choo. Volunteers worked ten hours each day serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks to hundreds of soldiers. Volunteers were sometimes called in the middle of the night to prepare meals.

Today, the Greater Chattanooga Area Chapter is one of five regional chapters in Tennessee. Our services range from teaching CPR and first aid to responding to fires, tornadoes and floods. All services provided by the chapter are made possible through generous donations of money and time from the American people.