IN THE WAKE OF MONDAY’S press release from the FDNY covering new procedures for building inspections (reported by Firegeezer HERE), the New York Post isn’t buying the sales pitch either.

In an editorial yesterday titled The FDNY’s Paralysis, the Post wrote:

… Scoppetta has zero credibility these days.

The Deutsche Bank tragedy was a command failure - a Scoppetta failure - of monumental proportion: Inspections were skipped, warnings about the building went ignored and the required pre-plan for fighting a fire in the building had never been written.

Yet neither he nor any other top-rank official has been held to account.

The inspections were skipped because the FF’s were forbidden to do them.  The need for a pre-plan was sent up to HQ from the field in December, 2004.  The pre-plan was finally done after the D-B fire and just lately the borough commander has been working on a regulation that will make it legal to do inspections in state-owned building.

Everything’s being done after the fact, including holding three scapegoats from the field in limbo.  Somebody is going to have to own up.

Read Firegeezer’s previous postings on the cover-up HERE, HERE and HERE.

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