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TheStar.com | GTA | Hotel to install alarms for deaf
A downtown hotel has agreed to invest in fire alarms for the deaf in a precedent-setting settlement with the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
The settlement was reached between the Days Hotel and Conference Centre, Toronto Airport East and a hotel guest named Barbara Dodd.
Dodd, a deaf woman who stayed at the Days Hotel for a special event, complained after a false fire alarm rang throughout the hotel, unbeknownst to her and several other guests.
The new system will see a strobe light fire alarm system installed into select parts of the hotel.
Areas that will benefit from the new technology include the lobby, restaurant, swimming pool area, ballroom, public washrooms and four guest rooms.
These four guest rooms will be reserved for patrons with hearing disabilities.
Terry Mundell, president of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association, is supportive of the arrangement.
He hopes other hotels and businesses will follow the lead.
"We encourage our members to invest in a number of important measures to meet the needs of people with disabilities as soon as possible, and ensuring fire safety is paramount among them," Mundell said.
A downtown hotel has agreed to invest in fire alarms for the deaf in a precedent-setting settlement with the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
The settlement was reached between the Days Hotel and Conference Centre, Toronto Airport East and a hotel guest named Barbara Dodd.
Dodd, a deaf woman who stayed at the Days Hotel for a special event, complained after a false fire alarm rang throughout the hotel, unbeknownst to her and several other guests.
The new system will see a strobe light fire alarm system installed into select parts of the hotel.
Areas that will benefit from the new technology include the lobby, restaurant, swimming pool area, ballroom, public washrooms and four guest rooms.
These four guest rooms will be reserved for patrons with hearing disabilities.
Terry Mundell, president of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association, is supportive of the arrangement.
He hopes other hotels and businesses will follow the lead.
"We encourage our members to invest in a number of important measures to meet the needs of people with disabilities as soon as possible, and ensuring fire safety is paramount among them," Mundell said.