LUFKIN, Texas (KETK) - The City of Lufkin has ordered the closure of Petty's Motor Hotel on Timberland Drive after infestations of bed bugs, roaches, gnats and rodents were found inside multiple rooms.

City officials announced on Thursday that they ordered the hotel's immediate closure after the Lufkin Building Inspection Department, the Angelina County and City's Health District and the Lufkin Fire Marshall conducted onsite investigations of the hotel and found major violations and unsafe conditions.

The investigations of the hotel reportedly uncovered “severe infestations of bed bugs, roaches, gnats, and rodents in multiple occupied and unoccupied rooms,” according to a Lufkin press release.

“We have seen an escalation in calls for emergency service at the location. Those calls and th

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