I thought hardwired smoke detectors were compulsory in all states of Australia.
Is Victoria different or is the article below flawed ?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/national/a/24852658/vic-coroner-wants-smoke-detector-overhaul/
A Victorian coroner has called for all rental properties to be fitted with a hard-wired smoke detector, after three international students died in a Melbourne house fire.
Coroner Peter White has recommended a change to Victorian laws to ensure that every floor of a rental property be fitted with a hard-wired smoke alarm, with a 10-year, tamper-proof, battery back-up.
The coroner made the recommendations in his findings into the deaths of 32-year-old Deepak Kumar Prajapati, 24-year-old Sunil Ramanlal Patel, and 24-year-old Jignesh Kumar Ghanshyamdas Sadhu.
The three men died in an electrical fire at a Footscray house in January 2008.
Is Victoria different or is the article below flawed ?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/national/a/24852658/vic-coroner-wants-smoke-detector-overhaul/
A Victorian coroner has called for all rental properties to be fitted with a hard-wired smoke detector, after three international students died in a Melbourne house fire.
Coroner Peter White has recommended a change to Victorian laws to ensure that every floor of a rental property be fitted with a hard-wired smoke alarm, with a 10-year, tamper-proof, battery back-up.
The coroner made the recommendations in his findings into the deaths of 32-year-old Deepak Kumar Prajapati, 24-year-old Sunil Ramanlal Patel, and 24-year-old Jignesh Kumar Ghanshyamdas Sadhu.
The three men died in an electrical fire at a Footscray house in January 2008.