Dad tells inquiry he smashed hotel window to escape fatal Cameron House blaze
dailyrecord.co.ukA dad has told of the moment he smashed a window with a chair while his family waited for fire crews to rescue them from a burning hotel.Andrew Logan, his wife Louise and two-year-old son Jimmy were trapped in suite 10 on the second floor of Cameron House Hotel after a blaze took hold in the morning of December 18, 2017.
Mr Logan, group operating manager with Leisure Hotels, was honeymooning at the five-star Loch Lomond hotel days after he and his wife married in Worcester.
This afternoon (Tuesday) he told a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the deaths of Simon Midgley, 32, and his partner Richard Dyson, 38, how he heard the pre-alarm sound, which he described as a “piercing noise”, before seeing a “light haze” of smoke in the room.More than 200 guests fled the hotel after the blaze started just at around 6.30am on the Monday morning.It started after night porter Christopher O’Malley, from Renton, emptied ash and embers from a fuel fire into a polythene bag, and then put it in a cupboard of kindling and newspapers.Mr Logan, 46, said: “I made some remark like the chef has probably burnt the toast not appreciating what had happened.”At first he said he thought smoke had come from the open fires but when realising the gravity of the situation, turned to his wife and said “we are not getting out”.Mr Logan said he opened the door to a “wall of smoke”, explaining: “That point in time I was shocked, concerned, but very much I felt still in control.
By not going out, I’m now moving to my work head, logical steps, we can’t get out, we can do things now to protect ourselves while the fire brigade come.”He said the family decided to stay put and started to use sheets and pillows to try stop the smoke coming into their hotel room, while
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