Council backs call for carbon monoxide alarms

At last Tuesday’s meeting at Cloonavin, the Mayor, councillor Norman Hillis, described the incident in Castlerock where two teenagers died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning as ‘a total tragedy’.

Councillor Hillis said he had written a letter to the families of Neil McFerran and Aaron Davidson expressing his sympathies.

Director of Technical Services, Dessie Wreath, asked members for their approval to write to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister supporting the introduction of legislation for carbon monoxide alarms.

This would make it a statutory requirement under Building Regulations that alarms be fitted into new buildings, renovations, fuel appliance replacements and installations.

This was agreed unanimously by members.

Mr Wreath also told the meeting that Council would be producing leaflets to get the important information about carbon monoxide out to the people in the borough.