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Fire Marshal Sues FDNY Over Blaze’s ‘Coverup’

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 10/17/19

For the second time in as many months, the circumstances surrounding the 2018 fatal movie-set fire in Harlem that killed FDNY Lieut. Michael R. Davidson has prompted a lawsuit against the city.

Scott Specht, an ex-Fire Marshal, filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging he was retaliated against for refusing to sign off on the official Fire Department probe of the blaze in a century-old building on St. Nicholas Ave. on the set of the movie “Motherless Brooklyn,” starring Edward Norton and Alec Baldwin.

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