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BLANCOVITCH v. CITY OF NEW YORK

131 A.D.2d 418 (1987)

Orlando Blancovitch, Individually and as Administrator of The Estate of Orlando Blancovitch, Jr., Deceased, et al., Appellants, v. City of New York et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

June 1, 1987

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Special Term's order dismissing the complaint should not be disturbed. A municipality owes no special duty to particular persons to provide an adequate water supply to fight fires or to keep its water system in proper repair for fire-fighting purposes (see, Steitz v City of Beacon, 295 N.Y. 51; Moch Co. v Rensselaer Water Co., 247 N.Y. 160).

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