Canadian Red Cross

A family of four has been displaced by a weekend fire that extensively damaged an older two-story house in the Carleton County community of Cloverdale, New Brunswick.

A team from the Canadian Red Cross is supporting the Village of Perth-Andover, New Brunswick, where a state of local emergency was declared Saturday evening and a mandatory evacuation was ordered for about 175 residents in low-lying areas due to ice jams and the risk of flash flooding. Other village residents were encouraged to voluntarily evacuate.

A family of three has been displaced after an overnight fire gutted their two-story home in Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick.

The Canadian Red Cross has stepped in to help a family after a fire destroyed their home in Johnville over the weekend.

There will be an informational meeting at 4:30 this afternoon at the Lions Club in Plaster Rock for residents of Wapske, New Brunswick who were evacuated due to this week's train derailment. This meeting is for evacuees only.

A team of disaster volunteers with the Canadian Red Cross has deployed from Fredericton northward 215 kilometres to the Village of Plaster Rock to assist local authorities with a reception centre and shelter if needed for any evacuees following derailment Tuesday evening of several cars from a CN Rail freight train.