A top FDNY official said Monday that his department can’t support a proposed law requiring landlords to provide and maintain childproof knob covers on stoves because it would “very difficult” to enforce.
“If there was some kind of device that we could support that we can inspect, we’d have a different stance on it. But since we can’t get into these dwelling units and inspect them, it is very difficult for us to say ‘we are fully behind it,’” FDNY Chief of Operations John Sudnick said after a City Council hearing on new fire-safety regulations.
The eight bills Sudnick and other FDNY bills addressed were drafted in response to a Dec. 28 blaze in the Belmont section of the Bronx that killed 13 people, making it the city’s deadliest fire in more than a quarter century.
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