Inquest jury urges public to check smoke alarms regularly

The jury at joint inquests into the deaths of a father and his young daughter in a house fire in Tralee has asked the public to check their smoke alarms regularly.

Verdicts of death due to acute carbon monoxide poisoning due to smoke inhalation as the result of a house fire were returned in the deaths of Anthony O’Brien, aged 29. and his daughter, Nadine, aged 5. Both were pronounced dead at Kerry General Hospital on May 12, 2012.

Firefighters who took them from the upstairs bedroom of their home at 42 Killeen Height had to feel their way through the thick smoke and zero visibility in the early hours of that Saturday morning, the inquest was told.