The city is ramping up apartment building inspections for fire safety law compliance more than a year after 17 people died in a Bronx fire.A FDNY firefighter leading a child out of the building during the January 2022 blaze.“Self-closing doors keep New Yorkers safe and we’ll continue to do everything in our power to make sure buildings are in compliance with our policies, including increasing enforcement under this new rule,” HPD said in a statement Sunday.
The new program is aimed at finding issues at buildings for self closing doors specifically, with inspections to start soon.
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