FDNY spends the first criminal summons to block the hydrant to fatal bronx fire

The New York City fire brigade has enacted a driver whose car blocked a fire -hydrant, and the efforts to extinguish a bronx fire that killed two people slowed down, the officials said on Friday.

Blocked fire hydrants are common in the city. The deadly bronx fire only slowed down days after another hydrant slowed the efforts to subject a fatal fire in Brooklyn. And at the beginning of this month, a group of residents of Queens, who said, blocked fire hydrants were widespread in their neighborhood, the FDNY a letter that demanded stricter enforcement.

The FDNY did not identify the person who was given a fine of 4,000 US dollars for violating a section of the city's fire law, who makes it illegal to make a fire hydrant inaccessible or not functional.

However, the fire brigade officers said that the parked vehicle blocked the nearest fire hydrant directly opposite a building in which a three-alarm fire broke out on February 12. Two people died in the flame caused by a room heating.

In an explanation, FDNY commissioner Robert S. Tucker said that he hoped that the expensive ticket would stop the New Yorkers from blocking fire hydrants.

“Seconds count in an emergency, and blocking a hydrant is a selfish decision that can kill people and endanger FDNY members when they work to save the residents,” said Tucker.