PARIS, Tex. ― Two days after a fire at a Paris homeless shelter killed five people, the American Red Cross is seeking temporary housing for about 20 survivors. Rita Kotey has more.

Officials tell us many of the men displaced have been taken in by family members and by residents in the community who agreed to house them in exchange for work.

Others still need a place to go and a place to work.

Bradley Scott, executive director of the Lamar County Red Cross, says after physical and mental evaluations of the men, they are now trying to find them more permanent housing options.

Because there is no other shelter in Paris for the homeless, they are requesting further help from church groups and health departments. He says providing a list of options is their primary goal.

"It’s their responsibility to talk to those people to go out and look for those homes or those places, those apartments, and those kinds of things, and most of the time in the 72 hour period it happens with this you’re kind of overwhelming a community that doesn’t have a lot of places," Scott says.

Scott says they are giving the men two additional days of one-on-one assistance. He says they hope to have everyone settled into temporary or permanent housing by Friday.