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Originally Posted by shnowballs
We were on holidays in Paris about 10 years back. It was during the Summer months and quite warm. We were staying in a small hotel: it was in an old building in the centre of the city, no more than four storeys high.
It took about 15 minutes (which I'm sure felt a lot longer than that in her flip-flops) before we were all informed that, in fact, the alarm had been activated by accident!
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Your wife was right to respond to the alarm. Older hotels in Paris are fire traps. The one we stayed in 20 years ago had only one stairway out. Two years after we stayed there, it had a fire in the stairwell and several people died.
DR