A Red Cross shelter for Hurricane Gustav evacuees opens at 6 p.m. today at LSU-Shreveport's health and physical education building off Youree Drive in south Shreveport.
The state shelter at Hirsch Coliseum in Shreveport opens Saturday morning, officials said. A shelter at the old Sam's Club on Jewella Avenue opened this afternoon and will accept evacuees from St. Bernard Parish.
A shelter for people with medical problems opens this evening at Bossier City's Civic Center.
Southern University in Shreveport’s PE Building, 3050 Martin Luther King Drive, will open at 6 p.m. on Saturday.
Three shelters in Ruston -- the Ruston Civic Center, 401 N. Trenton; Trinity United Methodist Church, 1000 Woodward Avenue; and Emmanuel Baptist Church, 1200 Farmerville Highway -- will open at noon on Saturday.
The Red Cross will open an evacuee shelter at Northwestern State University's PE Majors Building at noon on Saturday.
For more information, call the Red Cross in Shreveport at (318) 865-9545.
