Fire Chief Kevin Kelleher accepted the Red Cross’ Clara Barton Humanitarian Award for Community Partners April 22 at the organization’s awards gala held at Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel.

Shown with the chief (left to right): Nancy L. Leaming, Red Cross board vice chairwoman and CEO of Tufts Health Plan; William S. Cohen, former Defense Secretary; Kelleher; Janet Langhart Cohen; Barry L. Smith, Red Cross board chairman; Deborah C. Jackson, CEO Mass. Red Cross.