A18 The Post, Sunday, December 7, 1980 Many Need Not Die in Hotel Fires Village Clock Stjop "Compare our prices and personal service" i i .1 I 3S I down, turn around and go up. A fireman will greet you on the roof. If you are forcd to stay in your room, do this: Open the window if there is fresh air outside. Do not break the window. If there is smoke outside, you will need to close the window.
Fill the bathtub with water. Wet towels and sheets and stuff them around the door. If the bathroom vent has a motor, turn it on; if not, block it with wet towels, too. Block all vents. If the door and walls are hot, bail water on them with your ice bucket.
Keep everything wet. Swing a wet towel around the room to clear the smoke. Put a wet cloth over your nose and mouth. Above all, keep fighting. Don't quit.
ON FLOOR CLOCKS "Inclvdat delivery tet-up and one year lervko" sofjieon A ftPANnEATHFfft 41 FDFNf MftDRIFD mi Kir nnypc Ri icit crtPKT CUCKOOS ITALIAN RENAISSANCE $1 LUCITE ANTIQUE CLOCKS MANY Iff By Jules Loh Th Associated Press NEW YORK The 26 people who perished Thursday in the White Plains, N.Y., fire were engulfed in a virtual explosion. Perhaps there was no saving them. Perhaps. But Richard Kauffman believes he would have survived the Las Vegas hotel fire. Because of him, I believe I would have survived it, too.
"I haven't been there and seen for myself where the 84 bodies were found," Kauffman said, "but from what I have learned from firemen and others who were there, I believe that as many as 70 or 80 percent of them could have saved themselves," Kauffman is a fireman in Lcs Angeles County, Calif. He has fought all manner of fires, but hotel fires were, to him, always the saddest. "So many people need not have died," he said. Four years ago, on a vacation trip, he and his wife were assigned to a hotel rcom at the end of a hallway with no exit. "It was a fire trap," he said.
The desk clerk didn't want to argue the subject, not with all those people in the lobby, and willingly gave him another room. His wife was a frequent traveler, an airline employee. He realized how ill-prepared she was to combat a hotel fire and wrote out for her a few simple rules to follow in case, God forbid, she had to use them. She showed her little survival manual to her boss. Soon it found its way into American Airlines' briefing book for all employees under the title: "Warning: Hotels Could Be Haz- WALL AND MANTEL MODELS ZAANSE DUTCH CLOCKS TOIL LOUE! in a Portrait this Christmas Howard Milter Having trouble getting a portrait of ardous to Your Health." There is, in America, a fraternity of frequent travelers, and I am one.
We meet in airports. We compare notes. We share tips on how to make life easier, or less hazardous, much as hoboes used to scrawl messages for their brethren in freight yards. Inevitably, a copy of Kauffman's hotel survival rules found its way into my briefcase. I am never without it.
As a result, I have developed habits of behavior on checking into hotel rooms that have become as routine as knowing where the ice machine is, except that these might someday save my life. I know where my room key is. It is on the bedside table. It is not on the dresser or the top of the TV or in my coat pocket. Every room has a bedside table and that is where my key is.
"Some of the victims in the Las Vegas fire were found in the hallways without their room keys," Kauffman said. "They couldn't have gotten back in their rooms if they had wanted to." I know where the fire exit is. Not that it's somewhere down the hall to the left. I know there are precisely four doors down to the elevator, then five more doors, and the exit is on the opposite side. It is amazing how easy such a floor plan is to memorize.
I know how to combat the two elements of a fire far more lethal than flames: smoke and panic. "If you are occupied with constructive thoughts getting your key, remembering where the exit is, taking all the other precautions you are not likely to panic, you are too busy," Kauffman said. As for smoke, I know that my aim is to leave at the first sign of it. If I know where the fire exit is, I stand a better chance of getting out, on my belly (smoke rises), even with my eyes closed. What other precautions? Here are the Kauffman rules for hotel fire survival: If you smell smoke, call the fire department, not the desk.
The desk might send a guard. The fire department will send firemen. Tell the fire dispatcher what room you are in. Feel your door knob. If it is hot, don't open the door.
If it isn't, peek outside. If it is not too smoky, go to the fire exit. Never use the elevator. Always take your key with you. You might want to get back in your room, where it could be safer.
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Police Commissioner Thomas De-laney said the fire at the Stouffer's Inn in Harrison, N.Y., apparently began in a 4-foot-deep co*ckloft between a false ceiling and the roof which contained pipes and electrical wiring. The Las Vegas blaze Nov. 21 smoldered in a co*ckloft above a hotel delicatessen for some time, then burst through the ceiling in flames. That fire injured 700 persons. Delaney said investigators "are leaning more and more to the Stouffer's Inn fire originating in the co*ckloft.
It's something like they had in the MGM fire." He said smoke and gas built up in the co*ckloft and the mixture exploded into a second-floor conference room where executives of Arrow Electronics Inc. were meeting. The explosion blew bricks off the roof and spouting flames singed the hair of a man on a floor below the conference room, he said, Delaney said investigators had not determined whether the blaze was caused by faulty wiring or a power overload. Earlier yesterday, the Westchester County medical examiner completed the identification of all 26 people killed in the fire. Another 24 were injured.
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