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‘Hotel spokeswoman Beatrice Karlsson told AFP the hotel was initially surprised at the request but complied as “there are things that can actually catch fire, like pillows, sleeping bags or reindeer skins”. “To us the most important concern is the safety of our clients, so we will comply,” she said.

Bizarrely soon after the alarm was installed it was triggered, reportedly by a guest smoking in a cleaning closet.’

So, whoever posted this to overlawyered – were you just planning that nobody would actually read the article or was this an advertisement for your own know-it-all overignorance? If the OWNER of the hotel basically agrees, then maybe, just maybe there is a point to it. Remember that ice structures are designed to keep air in (to preserve warmth, like an igloo) and that smoke inhalation and smoke pockets are objective, realistic dangers.

Any reader might refer back to the linked article (as we hope all readers will do before commenting) and point out that it contains reasons why the regulation might not be all that unreasonable. Only a very special reader will jump from that to a hypothesis that we were hoping readers would not read the linked article because to do so would foil our plot to put over without challenge our own know-it-all overignorance. For very special reader services of that sort, we rely on “steve.”

” If the OWNER of the hotel basically agrees…” out loud with the regulator who can shut down his business on a whim….

/complicated second-order analysis, Steve.

Will they be required to install a sprinkler system this year?

Also they will be required to coat all slippery surfaces with nonskid material. Gotta watch out for those trip hazards!

As most likely the only person on this site to have visited Jukkasjärvi (albeit in May, after the hotel had melted for the year), I feel uniquely qualified to comment. That ends my commentary on the subject.

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