Four American Red Cross Disaster workers assisted the one family with two adults and three children with lodging, meals, monetary assistance for clothing, and provided comfort kits (which includes soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, washcloth, comb, facial tissue, deodorant, razors, shaving cream and lotion) home-made quilts and stuffed animals.

The other three adults affected were provided lodging and comfort kits.

This makes the fifth fire in a week’s time that the American Red Cross Lakeland Chapter has responded to within its chapter jurisdiction. We have assisted a total of 14 adults and six children for home fires that have occurred in De Pere, Luxemburg, Sturgeon Bay, and two in Green Bay.

Red Cross disaster assistance is free and is made possible by community donations. You can help individuals of this disaster and others by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross Lakeland Chapter’s local disaster relief fund. For information call the Lakeland Chapter at 920-468-8535 or visit www.arclakeland.org.

About the American Red Cross: The American Red Cross provides relief to victims of disasters at home and abroad, collects and distributes nearly half of the nation's blood supply, teaches lifesaving skills, and supports military members and families. The American Red Cross, a charity and not a government agency, depends on voluntary contributions of time, money and blood to perform its humanitarian mission.