unequal safety standards depending on the size of the structures

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In a cottage in Vanville (Seine-et-Marne), which can host 39 people, the owner, Jonathan Hallier, reveals its anti-fire equipment. “”You will have emergency blocks above the doors, fire extinguishers that will always be reported by posters. To summarize all this, you will have a plan that is compulsory “he details. The doors must be adapted to all audiences. “”On this door, you have an anti-panic bar to allow an easy and quick opening of the door. It is wide enough to allow as many people as possible to spend and a person in a wheelchair to circulate“Continues the owner.

All lodges that welcome more than 15 people meet strict anti-fire standards. Fire extinguishers, emergency from fire doors are subject to regular security checks. Like here, a year and a half ago. “”They check that everything is up to standards, that everything works. Once it is done, you go to committee, you wait, sometimes a little feverishly. If this is a favorable opinion, you have the right to continue. If this is an unfavorable opinion, you must do the necessary to comply“, Develop Jonathan Hallier.

Mandatory controls and yet never carried out in an Alsatian cottage where two years ago, ten disabled adults and their guides died in a fire. The investigation is still in progress.

But two thirds of stays take place in small structures. In these lodgings which receive less than 15 people, only a smoke detector is compulsory, as in all individuals. No control is imposed. Insufficient according to the holiday organizers for people with disabilities. “”We want to be questioned, rediscured the whole security of small lodges, not only for stays for disabled people. Because if this is the case, the objective of inclusion that are vacation stays could go through the hatch“, Argue René Moullec, the president of the national leisure and tourism council adapted (CNLTA)

The government wishes to clarify the safety rules of these lodgings and better train the guide at risk.