Thanks for the answer. So then how do you tell them what you are looking for? What criteria do you give them to find a suitable hotel. Do you tell them: Please book me a room not higher than 8th floor, no more than five doors from an emergency exit in a hotel that has had the least alarms or incidents possible in the last ten years?

Otherwise, how do they find out what you find suitable? Do you know what the fire codes are in the area you visit? Are you able to judge whether the hotel you stay in is conform to the code?

I take it you are buying from them and not the other way around, right?

The reason I said the thing about the personal experience is that I would sympathize with somebody that has had such an experience more than with somebody who is just very stressed out about hotel fires.

Does this mean that you also take special precautions at home?

I for instance, have fire extinguishers in the kitchen, in the office and in the hometheatre room. The house is all ground level and I can get out the window from any room. So I am not terribly worried. It's also new construction and I live alone. I did unhook all my smoke alarms because they are so sensitive that I can't toast a single slice of bread or cook a meal without them going off.

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