New Discussion List Regarding Terrorist Attacks in the U.S.
Tue
11
SEP
2001
Terrorist Attacks - Helping the Victims and Their Families
Information and resources are popping up around the Internet to help families and friends find each other, to check on the latest of what’s happening, to provide shelter or donate blood, and more. Here are some of them.
New Yorkers, Families - Sites To Check In
The Internet is really rallying around. Here are some places to help victims and to help families and friends check to make sure each other is OK, leave messages of their whereabouts, and related.
- New Yorkers and others, check in here[1]
- 911Tragedy - Communication for Victims & Loved Ones
- The Safe List[2]
- World Trade Center Survivor Database
Airlines Information For Family Inquiries
Donate Blood
- American Red Cross: call 1-800 GIVE LIFE or contact your local hospital or health care system.
- Dmoz has a listing of Red Cross chapters[3] to locate the Red Cross near you.
Here are some locations in the New York area to donate blood.[4]
For NYC residents - Local Hospitals Accepting Blood Donations:
The following New York City hospitals are accepting blood donations:
- Manhattan
St. Clare’s Hospital & Health Center
426 W. 52nd St.
212-586-1500 - Manhattan
St. Vincent’s Hospital & Medical Center
7th Ave. at 11th St.
212-604-7000 - Brooklyn
St. Mary’s Hospital
170 Buffalo Ave.
718-221-3000 - Queens-Flushing
St. Joseph’s Hospital
15840 79th Ave.
718-558-6200 - Queens- Jamaica
St. Vincent’s Medical Center of Richmond
355 Bard Ave.
718-876-1234 - Staten Island
Mary Immaculate Hospital
15211 89th Ave.
718-558-2000
Red Cross Donations
- Call 1-800 HELP NOW or visit their online donation system.
- Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
Set up via Amazon.com.
"ALL donated money will go to the Red Cross to help victims of this and other tragedies--Amazon.com is waiving its usual fees."
Help for Children from Mr. Rogers
Other Information, Resources
Blogger has set up a search page that updates every 10 minutes that’s tracking Weblogs around the Net, and there are discussion lists popping up for people to talk about the events, share concerns, provide support. Here are a few as of this moment:
- Empire State Building Webcam - live webcam[5]
- Blogger’s search results for blogs about the terrorists or World Trade, updated every 10 minutes.
- Metafilter thread about the terrorist attack (WTC, Pentagon, more) with links to many news article updates, witness accounts writing in to Metafilter about it, more.
- Metafilter thread about donating blood with links to information about where, when, how.
- 911USAttack : 911- The Day The U.S. Changed! Discussion list
- wtcattack : World Trade Center Attack Discussion list
- scriptingNewsWorldTradeCenter Discussion List
- World Trade Center Tragedy and News GeekNews mirror page has lots of video and photos of the WTC devastation, links to the NYPD, NYFD channels.
- NetDiver by Carole Guevin lists information and resources to help families, friends, and victims.
All the major news sources are extensively covering this tragedy, too, of course:
- At Brainstorms and Raves
Newswires, News Portals, News Filter Sites
Latest Newswires via MoreOver - Moreover newsfeed searches
World Trade Center
Terrorist Attack - Daypop searches
World Trade Center
Pentagon Attack
[1] Thanks to Carole Guevin of NetDiver.net and Pixeltable.com for so much assistance to help spread the word with all this information.
[2]ibid.
[3] Thanks to Sabrina Dent, Apperception for the Dmoz link.
[4]Carole Guevin, ibid.
[5] Thanks to Dave Winer’s Scripting News for the link to the Empire State Building webcam.
11:57 am, pdt
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