New York Daily News

Mayor hurried back from Fla.

- Jillian Jorgensen

MAYOR DE Blasio cut short a vacation to Florida after a veteran firefighte­r was killed in a Harlem blaze Thursday night.

Hizzoner had jetted off Thursday evening, not long after restaurate­ur Harendra Singh testified that he’d given de Blasio campaign donations as bribes and had told him of his plans to use straw donors.

De Blasio had plans to catch a Red Sox spring training game in warmer climates — but just hours after he left the city, firefighte­r and father of four Michael Davidson, 37, was killed in the basement of a St. Nicholas Ave. building that was home to a movie set.

De Blasio has been criticized for being absent from the city during times of tragedy in the past.

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