FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — A homeless shelter in Fremont is battling bedbugs, but it lacks the money needed to upgrade to metal bedframes.

Mike Wehling, executive director of the Care Corps shelter, says the shelter is treated with heat to kill bed bugs whenever the pests show up.

But he says it can be hard to irradicate them with so many people coming and going.

Wehling says part of the problem is that the shelter still has wooden bed frames that might allow bedbugs to hide.

The shelter recently received a $20,000 grant to help pay for metal bed frames, but Wehling estimates it will cost $45,000.