Levandoski v. Cone

Opinion

BORDEN, J.

The common-law “firefighter’s rule” provides, in general terms, that a firefighter or police officer who enters private property in the exercise of his duties occupies the status of a licensee and, therefore, is owed *654a duty of care by the property owner that is less than that owed to an ordinary invitee. Furstein v. Hill, 218 Conn. 610, 615, 590 A.2d 939 (1991). Thus, under the firefighter’s rule, the landowner generally owes the firefighter or police officer injured on his property “only the duty not to injure him wilfully or wantonly . . . .” Id., 616. The principal issue…