Originally Posted by goaround200
8Dumb question from SLF - don't the lavs have smoke detectors anyway?
They do, but sometimes passengers will try and block them up with yoghurt pots or wet towels to smoke, and then throw the cigarette in the bin with all the nice dry paper towels...
The bins also usually have an extinguisher that works by detecting when the bin gets very hot and firing an extinguishing agent in to the bin, but by then you are already in a bit of trouble.