Poree v. New York City Housing Authority

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Doris Ling-Cohan, J.), entered February 13, 2015, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Summary judgment was properly granted in this action where plaintiff was injured when he attempted to extinguish a fire in a Christmas tree in his apartment by grabbing the burn*529ing tree with his arms. The record demonstrates that defendant satisfied its statutory duty under Administrative Code of City of NY § 27-2045 (a) (1) to provide a functional smoke detector in the apartment when…