Fire Engineering board member and John Jay professor Jack Murphy was on WABC to discuss the recent huge fire at an apartment complex in Edgewater, New Jersey. Watch the video in the player above.
Murphy discussed the effects of lightweight building construction on fire spread, codes, and other aspects.
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