TRIBUTES have been paid to a Rostrevor man who died after a fire in the Co Down village on Wednesday night.
Named locally as Brian Curran and understood to be in his seventies, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service said the fire started at a first-floor property on Church Street.
It is believed the cause was accidental.
Mark Deeney, Assistant Chief Fire and Rescue Officer with NIFRS, said: “The thoughts and sympathies of Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service are with the loved ones of a man who died following a fire on Church Street, Rostrevor, on Wednesday.
"At 8.26pm, firefighters were called to reports of a fire in a first-floor flat. Four fire appliances attended the incident – two from Warrenpoint, one from Newry and one from Kilkeel. Firefighters extinguished the fire, but tragically a man died at the scene.
"The incident was dealt with by 11.27pm and the cause of the fire is believed to be accidental ignition.”
