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U.S. city Fire inspector Terrance Ivory installs a photoelectric
smoke detector inside a rental property in Cincinnati. Most
households are equipped only with ionization smoke detectors,
which are better at detecting flames than smoke. CINCINNATI — A
New Year’s Day fire that killed two University of Cincinnati
students helped prompt legislation today that would require
enhanced smoke detectors at rental properties. Cincinnati Vice
Mayor Roxanne Qualls and city Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld filed
the proposed ordinance, which would require all Cincinnati
rental properties to have photoelectric smoke detectors. Most
households are equipped only with ionization smoke detectors,
which are better at detecting flames than smoke, Qualls and
Sittenfeld said. The two UC students — Chad Kohls, 21, and Ellen
Garner, 20 — were sleeping in the thir