The resort director at Cameron House also told an inquiry there was no back up equipment for roll calls.
When asked by Sheriff Thomas McCartney what time fire drills were held, Mr Roger said: "We generally took them around 10:30 to 11:00 in the morning or 15:00 or 16:00 in the afternoon.Questioned by Crown counsel Graeme Jessop about role play drills after hours, Mr Roger said: "That was not something we did.
"In hindsight that's something we have done differently, we have done silent drills since we re-opened to capture that."As part of the evacuation plan, workers were instructed to pick up a bag which included equipment to help with the roll call of guests. However, as the intensity of the fire in reception grew on the night of the fire, the bag was left behind."A duplicate of equipment? Not that I can recall," he told the court, adding many of the hotel's systems were cloud-based and could be accessed from a laptop.
The inquiry was told about the hotel's fire plan which, under its general section, stated: "Combustible material of any kind must not be stored in general electrical or boiler rooms."
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