The Red Cross said one adult received assistance following the fire on Central Avenue, while three adults were assisted after the fire on Aquarius Court.<\/p>\n
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Fort Myers Fire Department<\/p>\n
Volunteers provided emergency aid, including financial assistance, health and mental health services, and recovery support, according to the organization.<\/p>\n
The Red Cross said its Disaster Action Team consists of specially trained local volunteers who are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to assist people affected by emergencies.<\/p>\n
All Red Cross disaster assistance is provided free of charge.<\/p>\n
The organization did not provide the causes of the fires, the extent of the damage or whether anyone was injured.<\/p>\n
WINK News has reached out to local authorities for additional information about the fires.<\/p>\n
Residents interested in supporting disaster relief efforts can visit redcross.org\/donate<\/a>. Information about home fire safety is available at redcross.org\/homefires<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 American Red Cross volunteers assisted four adults following two residential fires in Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2738,169230,169228,209,211,210,169229,160993,28,897,76214,157982,356,39245,17217,1521,130101,4571,160982,38979,58708],"class_list":["post-431101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-american-red-cross","tag-american-red-cross-southwest-florida-chapter","tag-aquarius-court","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-central-avenue-and-aquarius-court","tag-cities-in-florida","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-fort-myers","tag-geography-of-florida","tag-lee-county","tag-mental-health-services","tag-red-cross","tag-southwest-florida","tag-thomas-edison","tag-united-states","tag-waxa","tag-wink","tag-wink-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}