A Hebrew Day School in Brooklyn and the dormitory of another Jewish day school in Manhattan were ordered closed today, along with a public school in the Bronx, in a sweeping investigation of fire hazards in all schools in the city ordered after the disastrous fire Monday in a Catholic parochial school in Chicago which took 90 lives.
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