A New York City spokesman says a building in which a fire raced through an open door and up a stairwell, killing a dozen people, was required to have self-closing doors. Department of Housing ...

ROM Corporation's DuroMatic Self-Closing Strip Door for refrigerated truck and trailer applications combines the temperature control benefits of PVC strip doors with the driver-friendly benefits ...

All apartment buildings in the city will need to have self-closing doors installed by 2021 under new fire safety legislation. The bills were passed by the City Council months after a fire in the ...

What’s wrong with it? A: You have a hinge problem on your fire door, which is required to have a self-closing mechanism. Although these doors are important, they can also be a pain. I don’t kn ...

That's nearly 40% more than in the same period in 2022 and part of an overall increase in violations issued for self-closing doors and other “immediately hazardous” conditions, including heat ...

Two self-closing doors did not shut properly and allowed smoke to spread, Fire Department of New York Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. All 17 people died from smoke inhalation and the city's ...