Escaping From Fire

[Canary42]

When staying in hotels I often have doubts about fire safety, especially where rooms are reached by labyrinthine corridors.

News like this doesn't help.

May the victims RIP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-64144080

Perhaps sprinklers should be compulsory.

[wolf63]

I live very, very close to the building and I can still smell smoke.

However, I slept through the actual fire.
I think the deceased all live in the building adjoining the flats.

It is not a good start to the year.

[rowanwitch]

One of the reasons I no longer use older hotels in 'historic' buildings. While they will meet the required standards for safety it's less like!y they will have things like sprinklers and retrofitting enclosed fire escapes may mean compromises in accessibility. Dull they maybe but there is something to be said for the chains.

[lankeela]

Whilst at college we had a trip to Paris, and stayed in a small back street hotel, with a narrow central spiral staircase right up to the top floor. There were no emergency exits, no access to the roof and no balconies. How anyone would have got out in a fire is beyond me.

[Buenchico]

Not exactly the Ritz, apparently:
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186565-d244779-Reviews-New_County_Hotel-Perth_Perth_and_Kinross_Scotland.html

[douglas9401]

I've had an overnight stay there which included a bottle of wine and full cooked breakfast for two.

£69 from memory.

It's not The Ritz but their staff driver won't kill you in a Paris tunnel.

It was a fair enough deal.

[Peter Pedant]

with a narrow central spiral staircase right up to the top floor.
one of the city museums in New York was a tenement (run by a lesbian cooperative actually) . THAT had been a tenement but the owner cdnt be arrissed to modify the 1910 ( yup) fire prevention orders

so he HAD hammered tin foil to the ceilings and constructed air vents ( vertical ) as air conduits.

This led to worse fires as they acted in a fire as chimneys spreading it from floor to floor

( so fire precautions may bot work)

[fripfrip]

Always plan an escape route.

[Khandro]

My advice: always take a parachute with you.

[wolf63]

I seem to remember going to an event or something there and getting turned around.

I think the fire was contained in one bedroom but the smoke could easily travel to the flats next door.

I knew nothing about the fire until I woke up and found a month's worth of text messages.

[youngmafbog]

I used to travel a lot for work, here and abroad. One think I always did, whilst sober, was to check the emergency exits and routes. Some of the dig I have stopped in though didnt even have fire alarms.

[Zacs-Master]

There should always be a fire plan on the back of the bedroom door, showing the route to 'a place of safety'. Sprinkler systems cost £thousands and would probably make a lot of small hotels / B&B's go out of business.

[237SJ]

Ideally you should count the number of bedroom doors between your room and the fire exit as you wouldn`t necessarily be able to see them in a fire. I`ve always been a bit lazy about doing that though even though I have been in two hotel fires (not in the UK)

[youngmafbog]

//There should always be a fire plan on the back of the bedroom door, showing the route to 'a place of safety'.//

OK, well you can stop and study it when the alarm goes off, I will already be halfway down the stairs by the time you try to leave your room.

yes 237sj, that is usually what I do, or look for similar ways. Having been in a fire I know how easy it is to get disorientated and how smoke is thick enough to hide lights.