YOU WOULD think that in
a modern hotel, guests
would be completely safe.

The recent disaster in Puerto
Rico shoots that notion down in
flames, so to speak, Even more
horrifying i is that the deaths, nearly
100 of them, were murder. Arson.
In one report that 1 read, guests
had been warned of possible trou-
ble as a consequence of a labor
dispute.

It was also rumored that the
emergency exit doors from the ca-
sino were locked — for ‘‘security’’
Teasons.

Getting bask to the warnings
that guests vive supposed to have
been given, what difference could
2 make “o people who had bought
ai air fore and accommodation
pickaye? ‘dow many could afford
to cnang+ hotels at their own ex-
pense — or would, even if they
could? °

travel

by Barbara
McCreadie

; Pve » discussed hotel fire safety

with numerous firemen in several.

countries. It’s amazing how many
of them dislike staying in hotels.
Some fiatly refuse to sleep any
higher: than the fifth floor. Others
have mentioned that they refuse to
stay in any room that the windows
open only onto an airshaft, an in-
terior courtyard or an alley. It is

impossible to get rescue equipment .

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