Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York

It Took Nearly a Century, But New York Updates Fire Code

NY Daily News

After 95 years, the city finally has a new fire code.

And it no longer restricts kite flying above the FDNY's telegraph system or talks about the "behavior of wagons," Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said before the City Council unanimously approved it.

The code mandates clearer evacuation plans and fire safety managers at construction sites and bars rooftop obstructions to firefighting.

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