City housing officials are ramping up inspections of apartment buildings to ensure compliance with a fire safety law requiring “self-closing doors” — more than year after a horrific Bronx ...

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Next door at 120 Lake St., Mark Desrosiers said he and his family were sleeping when 118 Lake St. next door burned down at 4 a.m. Saturday. As families struggled to escape the smoke and flames ...

When it comes to mandatory requirements for fire/smoke damper inspection, testing, and servicing, Howard said, "NFPA, specifically NFPA 80, requires for commercial buildings that you test the fire ...

Closed doors also create a barrier between the fire and anyone still inside the structure, allowing crucial time to block smoke from entering the room through cracks and vents, and signal for help ...

FEMA reported in 2022 that over 15,500 high-rise fires occur annually, with smoke inhalation causing 60-80% of deaths at fire scenes.

Inspections inspired by Alpine Motel tragedy find many broken smoke detectors Las Vegas firefighters respond to the scene of a fire at the Alpine Apartment Motel that left 6 dead in downtown Las ...