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Dec 12, 2007 2:11 pm US/Eastern

FDNY Inspects Hundreds Of Buildings Every 15 Days

After Tragic World Trade Center Blaze, Regular Building Inspections Part Of Protocol

NEW YORK (AP) ― In New York City's first month of stepped-up fire inspections after a deadly blaze in a condemned skyscraper, officials say 97 percent of buildings under construction or demolition have been inspected within the required 15 days.

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta ordered the inspection overhaul after the investigation into the Aug. 18 fire showed that the toxic ground zero building -- condemned since the 2001 World Trade Center attack -- had not been inspected for more than a year.

Some of the hazardous conditions were said to have made firefighting exceedingly difficult; two firefighters died.

Scoppetta told the City Council on Wednesday that hundreds of sites are now locked into a regular inspection cycle. Previously, the department had not even known some of those sites existed, and many were believed to have never been inspected.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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