I was reading a article on the “In4fire.com” website.
The article read as follows: Apparently, Magistrates have ordered a hotel manager to pay fines and costs totalling £5,355 after a fire detection and fire alarm system failed to activate in a fire situation.
Nine residents were staying at the Plume of Feathers at Harley, near Shrewsbury, in the early hours of July 27 last year when the wife of the hotel manager opened the bedroom door to find smoke in the corridor, according to Shropshire Fire and Rescue.
She tried to raise the alarm by activating manual call points but the fire alarm failed to activate. Her husband and other members of staff had to knock on bedroom doors to wake guests.
Area manager John Das-Gupta said that although the premises were fitted with a full automatic fire detection and fire alarm system, no fire alarm maintenance was in place, and it had not been adequately tested by the manager. Because of this, the fire alarm failed to operate and raise the sleeping occupants.
Michael Martin pleaded guilty to one offence under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Shrewsbury Magistrates Court on 17 September.
The story above highlights the importance of having the fire alarm and any other fire protection equipment service and maintained in accordance with the relative standards.
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