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Letter: Fire drill

Published 17 June 2000

From Robert Nowell

Following up Caroline Blowers’s account of the fire instructions in her
hotel in Athens
(Feedback, 3 June),
I can’t remember the precise French of the fire instructions of the hotel in
Dreux in northern France where we stayed in the 1970s, but the crucial
instruction was: “Manifest your presence at the window.”

I’m not quite certain what you were meant to do if the pompiers
didn’t show up.

New Barnet, Hertfordshire

Issue no. 2243 published 17 June 2000

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