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Local blood banks send out ‘urgent appeal’ after fatal Amtrak crash

Bloodworks NW accepting walk-ins until 4:30 p.m. today at Camas library

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Bloodworks Northwest phlebotomist Jake Cole handles a bag of donated blood. Bloodworks is in need of donors to help replenish its blood supplies after this morning's fatal Amtrak passenger train derailment in DuPont, Washington, betweent Tacoma and Olympia. The blood center is accepting walk-in donors until 4:30 p.m. today, at the Camas Public Library in downtown Camas.

Local blood banks sent out an urgent appeal for donors today, after an Amtrak passenger train derailed off an Interstate 5 overpass between Tacoma and Olympia, killing at least three people and injuring more than 70 others.

The fatal train crash is straining regional blood banks, which already see a drop in donors over the winter holidays, said James P. AuBuchon, MD, president and CEO of Bloodworks Northwest, a nonprofit that provides donated blood to more than 90 hospitals in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, including PeaceHealth hospitals in Southwest Washington.

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