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More Lifesaving to Go to Fire Dept. By Jennifer Preston and Richard Esposito As city officials ordered investigations into the latest outburst of anger between police and firefighters. New York Nowaday learned yesterday that top mayoral advisors have decided to permanently shift responsibility for many life-threatening emergencies to the Fire Department. The plan, which tempers an earlier memo that shifted all responsibility to firefighters, calls for the Fire Department to take charge of building collapses and all extrication situations, sources said. It leaves the police in charge of water rescues.

It also instructs firefighters to respond to all threats of explosions and to begin evacuations even if police have not arrived. The fresh analysis by the Mayors office of Operations supersedes an ini- Nicholas Mancuso Stanley Brezenoff Philip Caruso tial "Mayors Plan fin- Coordinated Action at Emergencies issued Aug. 17. That plan angered police and heightened tensions between them and firefighters, who between January and July had clashed at 277 emergency incidents, officials said. The earlier report shifted virtually all emergency and life-saving responsibilities from the police force to the citys 13,000 firefighters.

But yesterday, First Deputy Mayor Stanley Brezenoff called the earlier plan inadequate. He declined to comment on the contents of the new report. Brezenoff said that Mayor Edward I. Koch, who is in Central America, had the latest version of the report and is expected to take action on the new recommendations within two weeks, after conferring with the agencies involved. Neither police nor fire officials would comment on the revised mayoral plan until asked to do so by Koch.

Simmering hostilities between police and firefighters erupted in August, after the preliminary report was made public. In file latest outburst, on Monday night, a firefighter used a flashlight to break the rear window of a police car that had struck two firefighters. It was that incident that prompted Brezenoff to call Police Commissioner Beqjamin Ward, Fire Commissioner Joseph Spinnato and other top ranking officials to City Hall yesterday. Calling the incident, "a prescription for disaster, Brezenoff said he ordered both departments to investigate the latest violence, take strong disciplinary action against any culprit, and report back to him by tonight. "Both commissioners will be issuing directives immediately to all members of their departments, advising them that such behavior will not be tolerated, Brezenoff said.

"Their supervisors will be held fully accountable for any such incidents in the future. Meanwhile, both departments issued new regulations yesterday, hoping to end the feud. Robert J. Johnston chief of the Police Department, issued a six-point plan outlining the chain of command at situations in which police and firefighters are present. Part of that plan requires all officers to call for a supervisor whenever firefighters are also present.

Johnston was also expected to issue a second order directing police to move their vehicles at an emergency scene when firefighters ask them. Reports of double-parked emergency vehicles blocking the rival departments access to an emergency and a ticketing blitz by police of Fire Department vehicles around the city, were also addressed in a separate Fire Department memo. It instructs firefighters to cooperatewith police, and gives procedures for reporting police vehicles that block Fire Department access to a blaze. Nicholas Mancuso, head of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, said he was not surprised by the incident Monday. "It demonstrates our position to the mayor to come out with some clarification of the issues, said Man- cuso, who has actively lobbied for ad-ditional emergency responsibilities for his union members.

According to a mayoral report, firefighters now fight 40 percent less fires than 10 years ago. Phil Caruso, head of the Patrol- to mens Benevolent Association, has argued that the firefighters should stick to fires. He would not comment on the current flareup. Newiday Donna Dietrich The Icy Stare of a Winner Ice sculptor Mark Daukas Inspects his "Cloud Dancer yesterday during Judging at Tavern on the Green. Daukas won the national championship.

He received $1 ,500 and a trip to Tokyo to compete in the world championship. Compromise Hinted on CitySpire By Carol Polsky A compromise is being discussed between the city and the developers of CitySpire, a 72-story luxury condominium tower that has besides its health club and tri-state views an extra 13 feet, 10.5 inches. Local community board leaders, lniming the height violation mocks the zoning rules, want the city to order the additional footage torn down. Theyll testify at a public hearing today before the city Planning Commission. Meanwhile, city officials are discussing a trade-off in which developer Ian Bruce Eichner would contribute money to the arts, or to the adjoining City Center of Music and Drama, in return for city approval of the extra height, a dty source said yesterday.

Neither the dty nor the developer would comment yesterday on the status of the talks. Eichner and his lawyer, Howard Hornstein, said the extra height re sulted when the builder hH to thicken the concrete floors by adding two inches to each floor to stabilize the tall building against the wind. Additional duct work added a total of another three feet, and another three feet was the result of a miscalculation of street level. Hornstein said that it was the developer who told the dty of the illegal height, and that he has been dealing with the dty for more than a year on this issue. The original permits and waivers to build CitySpire came in 1985.

But Community Board 5 chairman Joseph Bose and dty officials pointed out that the developers acted without first getting dty approval, and could have lowered ceiling heights inataaH of raising the height of the building. "That attitude of build now and get permission later has been all too prevalent in thecjtyfRose said. The board voted Oct. 8 to recommend that Eichners application for a 'major modification be disapproved by the planning commission and Board of Estimate. "You really are dealing with a matter of prindple.

Rose also said that any compromise should be referred to this local board for comment. Hornstein said yesterday, "Its up to the planning commission to determine what they want to do and Tm more than willing to meet with them and their staff to come to a solution. Even without the extra height, the nearly completed CitySpire, 156 W. 56th will be the citys tallest residential tower. The developer already had a dty go-ahead to build CitySpire larger than zoning allows.

In return he has contributed $6 million to ballet and opera companies performing at City Center and is funding a renovation of the theater lit 1 7 i.