All Best Western hotel rooms will be equipped with carbon monoxide detectors after three people died inside the same Best Western room in Boone.
The board of directors established the new policy during its September meeting.
Carbon monoxide detectors will be installed in all guest rooms, all rooms where fuel is burned and also rooms that share a wall with a room where fuel is burned.
The policy will go into effect Dec. 1.
It was more than a year ago that a police investigation found carbon monoxide killed three people who stayed in the same motel room in Boone.
IMAGES: State investigators inspect pool area at Boone hotel where 3 died
They determined an improperly installed exhaust system allowed carbon monoxide to leak from the pool heater to Room 225.
Daryl and Shirley Jenkins died in April.
Two months later, Jeffrey Williams died in the same room.
The hotel's former manager, Damon Mallatere, faces three counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths.
READ MORE: Stories on 3 deaths at Boone hotel
The board of directors established the new policy during its September meeting.
Carbon monoxide detectors will be installed in all guest rooms, all rooms where fuel is burned and also rooms that share a wall with a room where fuel is burned.
The policy will go into effect Dec. 1.
It was more than a year ago that a police investigation found carbon monoxide killed three people who stayed in the same motel room in Boone.
IMAGES: State investigators inspect pool area at Boone hotel where 3 died
They determined an improperly installed exhaust system allowed carbon monoxide to leak from the pool heater to Room 225.
Daryl and Shirley Jenkins died in April.
Two months later, Jeffrey Williams died in the same room.
The hotel's former manager, Damon Mallatere, faces three counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths.
READ MORE: Stories on 3 deaths at Boone hotel
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