When you stay at a hotel, you shouldn’t have to worry about whether you might be the victim of carbon monoxide poisoning, which could be deadly. However, all too often, hotels don’t even take basic precautions, and here’s the latest example of that (thanks to Jeff for flagging this).
What prompted the evacuation is that a guest who was staying at the hotel had collapsed outside just minutes earlier. She was feeling so weak that she got in the elevator to go outside, and she could no longer stand. Her husband was feeling similar symptoms.
Mesa Fire investigators found the cause of the carbon monoxide leak was the new tankless water heaters that the hotel had just installed. Some of the guests are now suing the hotel and the independent contractor who installed them, claiming the water heaters were “improperly, carelessly and illegally installed,” and were “venting carbon monoxide inside the property rather than to the outside of the property.”
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
