Temperatures in the Metro are beginning to fall and still some homeless refuse to move into a shelter. This may cause problems as they look to move indoors.
Some groups of homeless people refuse to go inside, this group has lived outside for years even in the freezing cold.
“I’ve been doing it for eight years… even when it gets cold,” said one of the men. “I’m 56-years-old, I don’t need someone telling me what time to get to go to bed and what time to get up.”
Sooner or later the temperatures begin to drop too low and the people living outside begin to look for shelter.
Firefighters worry about abandoned homes that are left open. Homeless people looking for a place to stay can just walk in.
Steve Frazee with the open door mission said, “Sometimes you’re in an abandoned home and you start a little fire and the little fire gets going too much.”