Coroner urges all landlords to install heat alarms

A CORONER yesterday called for regulations to force landlords to ensure properly functioning heat alarms are installed in all rented houses.

Tue, 11 Dec, 2007 - 00:00
Donal Hickey

An inquest in Killarney heard how an alarm in a rented house, in which a 28-year-old Lithuanian man died last October, did not have a battery.

A fire in the kitchen at 26 Countess Grove, Killarney, resulted in the death of chef Audrius Kiauna from carbon monoxide poisoning.

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