On Monday, American Red Cross teams were in Mercer, Gloucester, Cumberland and Passaic counties.
Ten residential fires across the state since Friday afternoon has the American Red Cross assisting 98 people, the New Jersey chapter said Monday afternoon.
On Monday, volunteers were assisting residents burned out of their homes in Trenton, Woodbury, Bridgeton and Paterson with with temporary lodging, food and clothing.
In Trenton, Red Cross volunteers are assisting 28 people in nine families after a 5-alarm blaze destroyed a row of nine homes in North Trenton.
And in Woodbury, flames damaged three homes, injuring four. The Red Cross was assisting five people in two families.
In Bridgeton, the agency was assisting a family of three following a fire on Hampton Street, and in Paterson, a Red Cross Disaster Action Team responded to a fire on East 18th Street and provided emergency assistance to nine people in five families.
On Sunday, the Red Cross assisted a nine people in two families in Garfield, which were displaced by a fire at their Cambridge Avenue home and in Newark, seven people in two families were aided after a fire on South 18th Street.
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On Saturday, volunteers provided comfort and emergency assistance to 12 people in six families displaced by a fire on Georges Avenue in Linden.
And on Friday, the Red Cross was in the Sicklerville section of Winslow Township, and Clementon and Paulsboro and assisted a total of six families following fire in those towns.
Red Cross Disaster Action Teams are on call around the clock to respond to home fires and other disasters throughout the region to help neighbors in need, the agency says.
In addition to assisting displaced residents with temporary housing, and food and clothing, volunteers provide comfort kits containing personal care items and refer refer people to other organizations for future needs, the Red Cross says.
The Red Cross in New Jersey trains and mobilizes more than 5,300 volunteers who last year went to 767 local disasters and helped 1,803 displaced families.
To make a donation of become an American Red Cross, more information is available at redcross.org/nj.
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