Seven adults and three children are homeless after a blaze struck their house in the Hobbema area on Saturday morning.
Canadian Red Cross is conducting needs assessments with the individuals affected and will provide emergency food, accommodation and clothing during a 72-hour period.
Members of the Red Cross Personal Disaster Assistance Team were on the scene on Saturday afternoon.
The average cost for a family of four during a 72-hour period is $2,000.
Hobbema RCMP report they weren’t contacted about the blaze, which happened on the Louis Bull Tribe First Nation.
Calli Forbes, communications co-ordinator for Canadian Red Cross in Edmonton, said that volunteers from Red Cross in Red Deer were called out late Saturday morning or early Saturday afternoon.
“The band has put them up for a couple of nights and we are putting them up for the last night,” said Forbes.
Besides food, the Red Cross is providing baby formula and diapers.
Fire crews from the Louis Bull and Muskwachees fire departments arrived at the single-family home just around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Francis Lynch, the fire chief of Louis Bull First Nation, could not be reached for comment on Monday afternoon.
Lynch told CBC News that the flames were extinguished just after 1 p.m.
However, both crews were called back when flames re-ignited in the house’s second storey. By the time the firefighters returned to the scene, all that was left of the upper floor was a charred frame. Lynch told CBC News that strong winds in the area likely played a role in the fire re-igniting, likely from a hidden ember.
Children playing with matches or candles near a couch is the suspected cause of the fire.