{"id":380902,"date":"2017-08-12T04:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/11\/apple-accepting-red-cross-donations-bc-fires\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T04:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:17:03","slug":"apple-accepting-red-cross-donations-to-aid-british-columbia-wildfire-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-accepting-red-cross-donations-to-aid-british-columbia-wildfire-relief-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Accepting Red Cross Donations to Aid British Columbia Wildfire Relief Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is <a href=\"itmss:\/\/buy.itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZFinance.woa\/wa\/buyCharityGiftWizard\">accepting donations<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.ca\/how-we-help\/current-emergency-responses\/british-columbia-fires\">Canadian Red Cross<\/a> through iTunes to help people affected by ongoing wildfires in British Columbia. The province declared a state of emergency in July.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/08\/canadian-red-cross-bc-fires-itunes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-581453\"\/><br \/>iTunes users in Canada can donate $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, or $200 with a credit card tied to their account. Apple will transfer 100 percent of the proceeds to the Canadian Red Cross, which is providing relief efforts for the wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>As of August 6, the BC Wildfire Service said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCGovFireInfo\/status\/894392743639863296\">132 wildfires were currently burning<\/a> in the province, with a total of 900 wildfires since April 1. As of August 9, over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCGovFireInfo\/status\/895479946273054720\">3,600 personnel were working<\/a> to fight the fires, which have forced some residents to evacuate due to dangerous conditions, including poor air quality.<\/p>\n<p>Apple says iTunes credit cannot be used to make a donation. The fine print also says donations may not qualify for a tax deduction.<\/p>\n<p>Apple routinely accepts Red Cross donations through iTunes for natural crises, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/05\/09\/apple-red-cross-alberta-fires-relief\/\">wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Via:<\/em> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphoneincanada.ca\/news\/apple-canada-donate-bc-fires-relief\/\">iPhone in Canada<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is accepting donations to the Canadian Red Cross through iTunes to help people affected by ongoing wildfires in British Columbia. The province declared a state of emergency in July. iTunes users in Canada can donate $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, or $200 with a credit card tied to their account. Apple will transfer 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":380903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-380902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}