[sneakers]

Good to know! Can you imagine being asleep in your hotel room when the fire department arrives and there’s smoke and fire everywhere!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

It’s an older building, tucked into a hillside. Hard to access. It’s kind of a reisdential (long term) motel (housing).

Now they are saying one person (resident) unaccounted for.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Can you imagine being asleep in your hotel room when the fire department arrives and there’s smoke and fire everywhere!

This happened to me years ago while staying at a Mom and Pop motel in northern Michigan. Each room had an individual electric heater. In the middle of the night mine malfunctioned and started spewing blue smoke into the room. It set off the smoke detector, which got me out of bed with a start.

It woke up all of the other guests too. I went outside and all of them were standing at their doors, looking to see what the commotion was. I shut down the heater.

Then I realized that the owners of the place shut down the office at 11 and went home. So there was nobody there to give me a new room. I had to spend the rest of the night in there with no heat (and it was February, so that was a mighty chilly shower in the morning!)