Shant Shahrigian
New York Daily News
(TNS)
Mayor Adams signed an executive order aimed at boosting fire safety in the wake of the Bronx inferno that claimed 17 lives earlier this year.
订单要求了纽约消防局和侯sing Preservation and Development to work together to identify safety violations earlier and boost compliance with the rules.
“We must work towards equipping every New Yorker and every building in this city with the tools to avoid an unspeakable tragedy like the one we saw two months ago,” Adams said in a Sunday statement, returning from trips to Chicago and Baton Rouge.
The new order includes a “broad, educational fire safety outreach campaign” by the FDNY and HPD. Also, if HPD officials find a lack of fire safety notices during housing inspections, they’ll convey that to the FDNY, among other steps.
“Educating New Yorkers on fire safety is among the most important goals of the Fire Department — and one we take very seriously,” stated FDNY Acting Commissioner Laura Kavanaugh.
It comes in the wake of the Jan. 9 blaze at the Twin Parks North West apartment building in the Fordham Heights neighborhood.
Following criticism that $4.4 million aid raised for victims was being distributed too slowly, Adams last week pledged an extra $3 million in payments for the survivors. Nonprofit BronxWorks is set to dole out the cash.
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