Order unanimously reversed on the law without costs, motion granted and complaint dismissed, in accordance with the following memorandum:
"It is a long-standing common-law rule that firefighters injured while extinguishing fires generally cannot recover against the property owners or occupants whose negligence in maintaining the premises occasioned the fires" (Santangelo v State of New York,
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