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Red Cross are, indeed, an admirable service, Swimmy, and all to often they are not given the recognition they deserve. Good to hear they looked after you.
The Red Cross was a bit on the nose here. They collected $216milion in donations for victims of the bush fires at the beginning of the year but have only spent $111million to date.
They have had to devote a lot of time and money defending themselves against accusations they were "stockpiling" the money.