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having smoke alarms. (There is no
option for reporting sprinklers.)
There are too many of these properties scattered throughout the
tourist-dense town, some in houses that
are well over 100 years old, to enforce
the IBC classification, Burlingame said,
which is why he and other members
of the fire code board don't support it.
"We've always taken the position that
if you rent a single-family house to
anyone for any period of time it's still a
single-family house," he said. "There is
a fire safety concern out there by some
people, but you have to look at the
global picture. How different is renting
an Airbnb to someone for under 30
days from renting that same structure
to someone seasonally for six months?"
Like the International Code Council
codes, NFPA codes, including NFPA
5000®, Building Construction and
Safety Code®, and NFPA 101®, Life Safety
Code®, leave it up to the jurisdiction to
decide whether they want to classify
short-term rental properties like hotels,
residential properties, or something
else. "It's not currently a distinct type
of occupancy in the codes, nor do I see
it becoming a type of occupancy," said
Robert Solomon of NFPA's Building Fire
Protection and Systems division. He
compared the situation to when condominiums became more popular in
the 1970s. Some viewed that as a type
of occupancy when in reality it is just a
form of legal ownership of a particular
type of building space, Solomon said.
Further complicating the issue of
classifying short-term rental properties
using codes is the breadth of scenarios
that present themselves through the
Airbnb business model. There are hosts
who rent out one or two bedrooms in
a single-family home, or rent an entire
HIGHS & LOWS
Findings from a new report on fire and life safety features in Airbnb properties
Prevalence of
smoke alarms
Prevalence of
carbon monoxide
alarms
Prevalence of
fire extinguishers
Prevalence of
first aid kits
High
High
High
High
90%p
74%p
70%p
53.5%p
Nashville, Tennessee
Denver, Colorado
Asheville, North Carolina
Portland, Oregon
Low
Low
Low
Low
74%q
37%q
Austin, Texas
New York, New York
New York, New York
Average
Average
Average
Average
Austin, Texas
80%
57.5%
29%q
42%
29.5%q
36%
Source: Kennedy, Hudson R., et al. 2018. "Reported fire safety and first-aid amenities in Airbnb venues in 16 American cities," Injury Prevention.
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