If there is a fire in a building such as a hotel or a retirement home and the rule is to stay in your room until help arrives, you should probably go ahead and leave your room if the fire is in your room.
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What kind of idiot would stay in her room if the oil she was going to use to fry doughnuts started smoking? Oh, the kind of idiot that leaves the heat on under the oil and goes down to the lobby to share apple cider with the other residents. “I’ll be back with doughnuts!”
Next thing you know there are four fire engines.
Luckily no one was hurt.
The fireman said that the 5th floor might smell bad for awhile, and an old man said, “It always stinks up there!”
Presumably this is about elderly people living in a residential home?
Because all the places I’ve ever stayed have the rule that the Fire Exits are clearly marked and that you use them as soon as alerted.
The only reason I can think of for the general ‘stay in the room’ is if the residents have severely limited mobility and may hurt themsleves by falling over in a panic.
They need to expand on the directive. If there is fire in the hallway, your best bet is to stay in your room. If there’s a fire in your room, you’d be wise to go to where the fire isn’t.
I was standing in a casino and the security guy came over and told me I had to move. I was blocking the fire exit. As if there was a fire…I wasn’t going to run. If you are flamable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit!"
I don’t care what they want. I leave a burning building and save myself. I will not be the person expecting they won’t fail to to rescue me. Oops! Sorry your dead.
I’ve told my three year old that if he hears the smoke detector at night, he should stay in his bed. I did that because I don’t trust that he has the judgement to not hide somewhere (closet, etc.) so that he couldn’t be found or that he could figure out how to escape a fire (or remember escape routes) when he was panicked. I would imagine that in an elderly residential home, they might have similar concerns, at least with those people who may have dementia. As my son gets older, I’ll revise the plan, but for right now, I don’t want him moving until I (or his dad or a firefighter) can get to him.
Maybe it’s not a good idea to fry doughnuts if you live in a retirement home.
Hopefully they will explain the rules better when the evaluate what happened.
I don’t have a link…this happened at my friend’s mother’s building last Friday night. I guess it wasn’t important enough to merit a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. it happened at the Knickerbocker Apartment building in Bay Village, Ohio.
