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The Endwell Knights Inn Tragedy: When Arson Meets Safety Failures We know the weight of the silence that has fallen over E Main Street. In a close-knit hub like Endwell, situated between Binghamton and Endicott, a loss of this scale—six lives taken in a single night—is not just a news headline. It is a catastrophic failure of the systems designed to keep people safe. While local authorities focus on the alleged arsonist, our focus as trial attorneys is on a different, often overlooked question: Why did this fire become a mass-fatality event? In New York, a hotel owner has a non-delegable duty to maintain a safe premises. This means they cannot blame a contractor for a broken alarm or a security guard for an unlocked gate. When an arsonist is able to enter a facility and set a fire that traps and kills six people, we have to look past the match and the fuel. We have to look at the negligent security that allowed a criminal actor to enter and the fire suppression failures that prevented guests from escaping. If you are a survivor or have lost a family member, you are currently in a moment of extreme vulnerability.…