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 flames, Red Cross volunteers showed up to see how they can best help the family. 

“We had a team of two disaster volunteer workers who were on scene, as you mentioned, within a couple of hours, and providing care and comfort for that family that was displaced by this fire,” said Lang.

That family was immediately given financial assistance, and the Red Cross is staying in contact with the family in case they need more help in the future.

“The American Red Cross provides, as I mentioned, that care and comfort and steps to recovery, and that that road to recovery, and in some cases it's financial assistance, some cases it's housing assistance,” said Lang.

On Wednesday night, a Boardman family was displaced after their house caught on fire.

Multiple crews were called to Montrose Avenue around 2 a.m.

First responders told 21 News all four members of the family were able to get out of the home without suffering any injuries.

The blaze started in the basement, but the cause of it is unknown.

The Red Cross immediately offered the family healthcare, mental health services and money. 

Lang said the holidays and winter months are the most common time for house fires.

“Cooking the turkey, or it's, you know, electrical fires with holiday lights and things like that. So in the winter months, we see, sometimes heater related fires and space heaters and things like that,” said Lang. 

House fires are the most common type of disaster the Red Cross responds to. In fact, Lang said seven people in the U.S. die from a house fire everyday. 

“Having a working smoke alarm in your home can cut that number in half. And the American Red Cross, along with partners, including local fire departments and other community partners, help install those, provide them and install them in homes,” said Lang.

You can find information here on how to prevent a house fire.