SCHEKTER v. LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO.


137 A.D.2d 591 (1988)

Leon Schekter et al., Appellants, v. Long Island Lighting Company, Defendant, and Garden City Park Water Fire District et al., Respondents

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

February 8, 1988


Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs.

It is well settled that "there can be no cause of action against a fire department for alleged negligence in the methods it uses to fight a fire, absent the assumption of a special duty" (Harland Enters. v Commander Oil Corp., 97 A.D.2d 785, affd 64 N.Y.2d 708...

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