Clare’s Senior Assistant Chief Fire Officer is reminding people to check-in on their elderly neighbours to ensure their home is safe.
It comes as National Fire Safety Week aims to encourage everyone to have a working smoke alarm in their home and to check them on a weekly basis.
The Clare public is being urged to keep internal doors closed at night, put a fire drill in place in both homes and workplaces and leave a building as soon as an alarm sounds.
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Senior Assistant Chief Fire Officer, Denis O Connell says most fatalities happen due to people taking batteries out of their fire alarms.
