The Canadian Red Cross is assisting three people who were displaced after a fire gutted a farmhouse in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County on Saturday.
The fire at the home along Highway 4 in Salt Springs, N.S., was reported shortly after 10 p.m. AT.
The rural community is located approximately 25 kilometres west of New Glasgow, N.S.
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A press release from the Canadian Red Cross says volunteers with the organization are helping the family, consisting of a couple and a teenaged daughter, with emergency purchases like food, clothing and other basic necessities.
The family is staying with relatives for now.
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No one was in the home at the time of the fire.
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