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Volunteers with Denver's chapter of the American Red Cross answer calls after Hurricane Frances in 2004. <!--IPTC: 09_05_04-DENVER,CO- Nanci Wallace second from left, a call agent with the new center, takes a call .Volunteers with Denver's Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross began answering calls for help beginning today September 5th from people impacted by Hurricane Frances at their headquarters at 444 Sherman Street. The new Denver-based Disaster Response Call Center the first such Red Cross call center outside Washington, D.C. was brought on-line just this week . The first wave of trained volunteer call agents were ready to go early Sunday morning . "This call center places Denver second in line to the National Disaster Response enter in Jefferson Park, Virginia to take calls from and directly help those affected by disasters anywhere in the United States," says Mile High Chapter CEO, Christine Benero . The current national call center, better known as Disaster Response Center , was created as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks and has since responded to major disasters nationwide including forest fires, hurricanes and tornadoes . In its first year of operation Disaster Response Center call agents answered more than 125-thousand calls for help from those affected by disaster . ABOVE: PHOTO BY HELEN H. RICHARDSON-->
Volunteers with Denver’s chapter of the American Red Cross answer calls after Hurricane Frances in 2004. <!–IPTC: 09_05_04-DENVER,CO- Nanci Wallace second from left, a call agent with the new center, takes a call .Volunteers with Denver's Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross began answering calls for help beginning today September 5th from people impacted by Hurricane Frances at their headquarters at 444 Sherman Street. The new Denver-based Disaster Response Call Center the first such Red Cross call center outside Washington, D.C. was brought on-line just this week . The first wave of trained volunteer call agents were ready to go early Sunday morning . “This call center places Denver second in line to the National Disaster Response enter in Jefferson Park, Virginia to take calls from and directly help those affected by disasters anywhere in the United States,” says Mile High Chapter CEO, Christine Benero . The current national call center, better known as Disaster Response Center , was created as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks and has since responded to major disasters nationwide including forest fires, hurricanes and tornadoes . In its first year of operation Disaster Response Center call agents answered more than 125-thousand calls for help from those affected by disaster . ABOVE: PHOTO BY HELEN H. RICHARDSON–>
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Johnson & Johnson said it will drop its trademark-infringement lawsuit against the American Red Cross, a month after a federal judge threw out four of its seven claims against the charitable organization.

J&J and Red Cross settled all claims and counterclaims and will continue selling products with the emblem used by both organizations for more than a century, they said Tuesday in a joint statement.

Red Cross was sued last August, accused of wrongfully licensing the symbol to third-party manufacturers to make emergency-preparedness kits and other products. J&J, which holds a family of trademarks for the symbol, claimed the charity agreed decades ago to not profit from the emblem’s use.

“Johnson & Johnson brought the lawsuit very reluctantly, only to protect what we believed were important trademark issues,” J&J chief executive Wil liam Weldon said in the statement. The company and the charity coexisted peacefully until the American Red Cross decided to use the emblem on commercial products, the company said in court papers. Bloomberg News

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