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.
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.
As reported by Vos Iz Neias