Red Cross Shelter Update

The Birmingham Area Chapter of the American Red Cross is currently operating several shelters in the Birmingham Metro Area in preparation of Hurricane Gustav. Below is a list of the shelters that are open and the status of operation. The Shelters listed below are designated as locations for those evacuees who arrived by bus. 

Jefferson State Community College
2601 Carson Road
Birmingham, AL 35215

Lawson State Community College
3060 Wilson Road SW
Birmingham AL, 35221

Lawson State Community College (Bessemer)
1100 9th Avenue SW
Birmingham, AL 35022

BJCC
2100 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. North
Birmingham, AL 35203

Boutwell Auditorium
1931 8th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35203

Fair Park Arena
2331 Bessemer Road
Birmingham, AL 35208

Bartow Arena        
617 13th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35233

An additional three shelters listed below are convenient to the interstate and available for those who arrived via personal vehicles.

Shelby County Exhibition Center
1 Argo Road                                   (Open)
Columbiana, AL 35051

First Baptist Church Irondale
6001 Old Leeds Rd.                  (Full)
Birmingham, AL 35210

Canaan Baptist Church
2543 Morgan Rd SE         (Full)
Bessemer, AL 35022

The Red Cross, conjunction with other partner organizations is providing food, drinks and snacks at each shelter daily. For Media inquiries please contact Public Affairs Officer, Chris Osborne at (205) 966-8795.

The American Red Cross helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. Each year in communities large and small, victims of some 75,000 disasters turn to the nearly 1 million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through almost 800 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies. The Red Cross helps thousands of U.S. service members separated from their families by military duty stay connected. Almost 4 million people gave blood through the Red Cross, the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States. The American Red Cross is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.  An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs.  The Red Cross is not a government agency; it relies on donations of time, money, and blood to do its work. When you help the Birmingham Area Red Cross, you help your neighbors!