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    Travel dilemmas: Staying at a hotel? Be ready for fire by making exit plans

    by Catharine Hamm, Los Angeles Times Jan 22, 2018 4 minutes

    Question: During the recent Christmas holidays, I spent two nights at the Encore hotel in Las Vegas. A beautiful property, and the amenities are over the top. But I didn't notice any fire sprinklers in my room. Shouldn't newer hotels (Encore opened in December 2008) be required to have them? I did see smoke alarms, but I doubt that they would be enough in the case of a fire. Am I missing something?

    - David Tulanian, Las Vegas

    Answer: Tulanian may have missed them, and you can probably blame that on aesthetics.

    But first, to Tulanian's question. Michael

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