BATON ROUGE - On Tuesday, dozens of occupants at Boardwalk Suites Hotel were evicted, with the hotel operator saying it comes as part of a court order.

Jason Trindade, the hotel operator and CEO of Boardwalk Suites Baton Rouge, said part of the problem with the hotel is the fire protection and life safety systems that do not work.

"It was in such disrepair that every single thing that I fixed, every invoice I paid, there's another thing that comes in. We've already spent 25-30 thousand dollars fixing life safety, and it's still not done," Trindade said.

Without a working fire protection and life safety system, a 24-hour watch is needed. Trindade said he needed the fire system fixed so he could pass a fire inspection and get an occupancy permit when he became the sole owner of the hotel.

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