Bronx, NY – A New York City spokesman says a building in which a fire raced through an open door and up a stairwell, killing a dozen people, was required to have self-closing doors.
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Department of Housing Preservation and Development spokesman Matthew Creegan says investigators will look at why the door did not close in Thursday night’s Bronx fire.
A fire commissioner Friday said the fire started on a stove and raced through a door and up five floors. Mayor Bill de Blasio says “nothing problematic about the building … contributed to this tragedy.”
Creegan says the city takes seriously the issue of self-closing doors, required in all dwellings with more than three units. He says the city cited landlords over 7,752 times in the last year for violations of the self-closing-door requirement.
No accountability for the mother for ignoring her child while she was doing drugs and letting her kid play with the stove. And then just leave the building with her door open and let everybody else get killed. This H P D commissioner still looking if he can blame the Landlord in any way if the door wasn’t self closing. Tenants have no responsibility at all.