Hotel Manager guilty of fire safety breaches
Written by terry on October 10, 2010 at 21:18
A hotel owner has pleaded guilty to an offence under the Regulatory Reform Order 2005 and was ordered to pay £3,300 in fines and £2,040 in costs after a fire alarm failed to go off in the Shrewsbury hotel.
The Plume of Feathers in Harley, Shrewsbury was fitted with a full fire alarm and fire detection system but alarms failed to sound during a fire in the early hours of 27th July 2009.
The fire was discovered when the wife of the owner opened a bedroom door to find the corridor filled with thick smoke. Staff members had to knock on doors to wake guest after it was found that the ‘break glass’ call points were not working.
The hotel owner was fined at Shrewsbury Magistrates Court on 17th September.
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