Risking lives, diabled fire detectors
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 10/17/10
My family and I stayed in 3 rooms for my grandma's funeral. The night before the funeral, the AC switched to heater mode and then shut off abruptly, releasing an sufficating gaseous fire smell. Fearing we could die in our sleep, as families have before when using space heaters, I called the front desk. The clerk said there was nothing she could do, they have no onsite maintenence. I requested that we get a new room, so at 4 am we moved all our stuff downstairs. The day after the funeral my mom asked to talk to the manager; the clerk refused. She said "y'all overracted to the fire. y'all didn't have to stay here. Y'all need to leave. Ya'll have been nothing but bad people." I went in calmly to ask, and she pointed to the door, "leave or I'm calling the cops." I left crying, at a time of mourning we were treated like animals. And our lives were endangered. On top of it, the fire detectors in both rooms were disabled.