Cuomo signs fire-prevention bill named after Marist student

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Cuomo signs fire-prevention bill named after Marist student

Colleges will now have to notify students whether or not a sprinkler system is present when they move into school-owned housing, according to a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The "Kerry Rose Fire Sprinkler Notification Act" requires all colleges to provide written notice to students of their housing unit's fire-safety procedures, along with any fire sprinkler or lack thereof. The law is named after Kerry Rose Fitzsimons, a Marist College student who was killed along with two others in a January 2012 fire at her

off-campus house in the town of Poughkeepsie.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20130725/NEWS01/130725021/Cuomo-signs-fire-prevention-bill-named-after-Marist-student