I have, but only in a convention
Do they use elevators in a fire? That is explicitly forbidden where I stay, but most of the hotels are not high rises.
they say no. But I was in the Lord baltimore Hotel i think 1979 and they used the service elevator while we all scrambled down the stairs to the lobby. The firs was in one corner of the hotel and the elevator opposite side. And the stairwell crowded with everyone going down.
Whatever he used, every hotel has cameras up one side and down the other now, so he must be on video and I can’t understand why it should be this hard to track his movements in the hotel. I think they probably upload the videos and keep them for at least awhile, simply to protect themselves from legal liability from faux claims by gold-digging guests.
So unless this hotel had very unusual and secretive procedures, there’s a record of him and his movements.
Do they use elevators in a fire? That is explicitly forbidden where I stay, but most of the hotels are not high rises.
Modern elevators are designed to go into Firefighter Emergency Operations (FEO) mode during a fire alarm. They are no longer accessible to the public and the cabs are recalled to the building’s floor of egress. The fire dept can utilize the cabs using their own override key to operate the fireman’s switch in the cab.
http://www.affiliatedinc.com/elevator-recall-integration-with-fire-alarm-systems/
If a fire alarm goes off, the elevator should go down to the ground floor and the doors open and stay there unless the smoke detector in the elevator lobby trips on the ground floor in which it will go to the next highest floor, stop and open.
FD has the keys to over ride the stop and can use it for personnel or equipment, but would not ride to the fire floor.