How the Red Cross helps displaced families after a house fire

Mahoning Valley - When a family is displaced from their home, American Red Cross volunteers will help the family recover.

The nonprofit helps families with immediate and long term relief.

“That looks different for everyone. Sometimes it's just the comfort, sometimes it's more care that the American Red Cross provides,” Ryan Lang, Regional Communications manager for Red Cross Northern Ohio.

On Thanksgiving night, an Ellsworth Township family was displaced after their house on Western Reserve Road caught fire.

Ellsworth Fire Department Assistant Chief Zach Williams said the fire started in the kitchen, and two kids in the home ran over to the neighbor's house to call 911.

Four people and two dogs were in the home. They all escaped with no injuries.

Just hours after the home went up in