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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3257644" data-attributes="member: 26737">All the fire doors I&#039;ve ever seen that would only open one way opened toward an exit, so nobody should be trying to go the way the door won&#039;t open. More recent ones have double doors that swing in opposite directions, so you can always open one from either side.Where I retired from, we had electromagnets on the fire doors. When the fire alarm went off, it killed the power to those circuits so the fire doors closed automatically. It also killed the air handlers and notified the FD. I had access to the alarm panel, but we weren&#039;t allowed to silence any alarms; that could only be done by the FD (or PD in the case of a false alarm).Also, I can almost guarantee that Choice Hotels (the parent company of Comfort Suites) has policies covering events like this, and the clerk was almost certainly violating those policies. I&#039;m not sure if those are corporate hotels or if they&#039;re franchised, but I&#039;d bet that even if they&#039;re franchised, the franchise agreement requires them to follow standardized policies on guest safety issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3257644, member: 26737"] All the fire doors I've ever seen that would only open one way opened toward an exit, so nobody should be trying to go the way the door won't open. More recent ones have double doors that swing in opposite directions, so you can always open one from either side. Where I retired from, we had electromagnets on the fire doors. When the fire alarm went off, it killed the power to those circuits so the fire doors closed automatically. It also killed the air handlers and notified the FD. I had access to the alarm panel, but we weren't allowed to silence any alarms; that could only be done by the FD (or PD in the case of a false alarm). Also, I can almost guarantee that Choice Hotels (the parent company of Comfort Suites) has policies covering events like this, and the clerk was almost certainly violating those policies. I'm not sure if those are corporate hotels or if they're franchised, but I'd bet that even if they're franchised, the franchise agreement requires them to follow standardized policies on guest safety issues. [/QUOTE]

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