Red Cross warns of blood shortage as July Fourth weekend approaches

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Alanna Ward?s heart stopped beating four minutes before she arrived at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore City.

The off-duty Montgomery County police officer had been in a serious car crash this past May and suffered from a severed bronchial tube, among other injuries.

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