The Fire Department and its firefighter unions extinguished a behind-the-scenes effort to water down legislation promoting fire safety on movie sets, according to the Uniformed Firefighters Association.
The package of bills, set to be voted on next week, has been championed by Eileen Davidson, the widow of Firefighter Michael R. Davidson, 37, who died from injuries he sustained at a five-alarm fire in March 2018 in a former Harlem jazz club that his engine company did not know had been converted into a movie set.
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