Hotel and Vacation Rental Safety
While you are thinking about holidays, gatherings, celebrations, and travel, we are thinking about safety to keep you protected. That's why we built this page to remind you of the various safety tips covering emergency lodging safety tips for hotel/motel or short-term vacation home rentals. We encourage you to contact us with any concerns or questions about fire safety.
Hotel and Short-Term Rental Safety
Hotel Safety
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Fire safety is important, even when you are away from home.
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Stay in hotels and motels that have hard-wired smoke alarms and an automatic fire sprinkler system in each guest room.
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Read the evacuation plan carefully.
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Find the 2 closest exits from your room.
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Count the number of doors between your room and the exits. This will help if you need to get out in the dark.
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Find the fire alarms on your floor.
Read the evacuation plan in your room. Find the closest exits to the outside from your room. Count the number of doors between your room and the exits.
Keep your room key near your bed.
Vacation and short-term rentals – Be sure:
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Everyone knows the address of the rental.
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Everyone knows 2 ways out of every room and out of the rental if there is an emergency.
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There are working smoke alarms in every sleeping room, outside each separate sleeping area and on every level of the rental.
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There are working carbon monoxide alarms on every level of the rental.
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You can open all doors and windows that lead outside.
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Everyone knows the location of fire extinguishers.
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You choose an outside meeting place a safe distance from the rental.
Did You Know: While there are fire safety regulations in place for hotels and motels, homes and apartments used as vacation or short-term rentals are not regulated to the same extent.