Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) introduced and sponsored two bills that would help regulate and make movie sets safer after the tragic death of Firefighter Michael Davidson, who was killed while responding to a fire on the set of a movie in Harlem in 2018.
“Thank you for honoring their daddy,” Eileen Davidson, the FDNY hero’s widow, said of her four children Thursday. Davidson, 37, of Long Island, died after he became separated from his unit while responding to a fire on the movie set of “Motherless Brooklyn” in Harlem.
The firefighters who responded at the scene “did not know that the building had alterations made to its production set, including new partitions and fabricated doors and windows, making it difficult to navigate from within,” according to Borelli’s office.