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Survivors Of Fatal Carrickmines Fire Call For Public Inquiry

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07:46 19 Apr 2016


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Survivors of the Carrickmines halting site tragedy are calling for a public inquiry into the blaze.

Ten people including five children died in the fire last October.

Their relatives want an investigation into how Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council dealt with the site in the lead up to the tragedy.

They say the council moved the mobile homes in which the fire started from where the family had originally placed it to right beside the other mobile homes.  They believe this enabled the fire to spread to another unit. 

The family also says the fire extinguisher on site on the night was not working and the water supply to the nearest fire hydrant had been cut off in the months before.  

The council says it inspects and checks its halting sites on a regular basis. 

It says there were 4 extinguishers on the Glenamuck Road site where were inspected and serviced every 6 months. 

 

 


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