Old Paint Under Fire Retardant Fed Blaze

query.nytimes.com — Flames from a mattress set ablaze in a stairwell at a Bronx housing project roared upward 11 floors after igniting layers of old paint under newly applied fire-retardant paint, fire officials said yesterday. Although no one was injured, the fire again raised questions about the citys efforts to deal with such blazes. The stairwell, which bu