to a warehouse. brian todd with the details on this. brian? >> reporter: wheelchairs and hospital curtains scatter the site of this remote warehouse where five nursing homes residents died. >> this was a nightmare. a nightmare. >> reporter: local leaders now looking for answers for what went wrong. >> that nursing home owner should be held accountable. as far as the investigation, we understand there is one. >> reporter: the warehouse in independence, louisiana, served as a temporary evacuation facility for more than 800 patients from seven area nursing homes. the conditions inside were appalling. >> crowding, mattresses on floors instead of beds, port-o-potties instead of bathrooms and probably not enough of them. it was just things that none of us would want our family members to have to go through. >> reporter: according to one patient who was inside, insects were crawling all over the mattresses. the independence police chief says the facility was prepared for a certain number of residents, but the number nearly