Hotel Safety Program in Seattle
A program to improve fire safety in hotels has been started by the Seattle, Wash., Fire Department through a saturation patrol aimed at hotel firebugs and a vigorous enforcement of new ordinances for fire protection.
Chief Gordon S. Vickery has appealed for citizens to be on the lookout for suspicious actions by individuals and to notify either the police or fire department. The chief said that 80 of the 427 apartment and hotel fires during the first 11 months of 1971 were of incendiary origin. Vickery reported that the department has been receiving excellent cooperation from building owners in complying with the new ordinances, but 655 buildings were found to have “very serious defects in fire safety, with open stairwells, no fire doors or physical separation from floor to floor, and openable transoms.”
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