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Twenty flashcards on hotel fire safety for guests, with U.S. Fire Administration messages and the federal hotel fire safety law.
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- Why does the U.S. Fire Administration publish hotel fire safety pictographs?
- To overcome literacy barriers and share hotel fire safety messages with pictures.
- First thing to read in a hotel room?
- The evacuation plan in your room.
- How many exits should you find from your room?
- The 2 closest exits.
- Why count the doors between your room and the exits?
- It helps if you need to get out in the dark.
- What should you find on your hotel floor?
- The fire alarms.
- Where should you keep your room key at night?
- Near your bed.
- How many hotel and motel fires happen each year, by U.S. estimates?
- About 3,900, causing 15 deaths, 100 injuries and $100 million in property losses.
- Leading cause of hotel and motel fires?
- Cooking.
- Which hotels does the U.S. Fire Administration advise choosing?
- Those with hard-wired smoke alarms and an automatic fire sprinkler system in each guest room.
- Which hotels qualify for the Hotel-Motel National Master List?
- Those with at least 1 hard-wired, single station smoke alarm in each guest room, plus sprinklers in each room if 4 or more stories tall.
- Which smoke detector does federal law set for each guest room?
- Hard-wired, single-station smoke detectors in each guest room.
- Which hotels are left out of the federal sprinkler guideline?
- Those that are 3 stories or lower.
- Which older sprinkler systems are exempt?
- Those installed before October 25, 1992 under a standard that put a sprinkler head in each guest room's sleeping area.
- Does the federal hotel guideline limit state fire laws?
- No: states and local governments keep their power to enforce fire prevention and control rules.
- How does the law define a smoke detector?
- An alarm designed to respond to visible or invisible particles of combustion.
- How does the law define an automatic sprinkler system?
- Supervised piping with sprinklers in a pattern that, when heat from a fire activates it, discharges water and warns through the fire alarm.
- What does federal law say about government-funded conferences?
- No federal funds may pay for a meeting or training at a place that does not meet the hotel fire safety guidelines.
- Where should a vacation rental have smoke alarms?
- Working alarms in every sleeping room, outside each sleeping area and on every level.
- Which other alarm should a vacation rental have on every level?
- A working carbon monoxide alarm.
- Escape plan basics in a vacation rental?
- Everyone knows 2 ways out of every room and an outside meeting place a safe distance away.
Official sources
U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), FEMA
Hotel Fire Safety Pictographs
U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), FEMA
Pictograph: Hotel Evacuation Plan
U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), FEMA
Hotel and vacation rental fire safety
U.S. Congress (Hotel and Motel Fire Safety Act), via GovInfo (GPO)
15 U.S.C. 2225 and 2225a: Fire prevention and control guidelines for places of public accommodation (U.S. Code 2024 edition)
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