Investigators looking into the deadly 2007 fire at the former Deutsche Bank building say a former Department of Buildings supervisor ignored a request to check a damaged water standpipe just months before the fire.

Department of Investigation officials say that in June 2007 a building inspector told Robert Iulo the entire length of the broken standpipe should be tested.

Iulo said Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor hired to demolish the tower, should instead be given a few hours to fix it.

The inspector also says Iulo told him not to mention the broken standpipe in his report.

Bovis eventually fixed the standpipe, but never tested it.

Two months later, flames broke out at the tower, killing firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino when they could not get water out of the standpipe.

Iulo denied the allegations when questioned by the Daily News.

The report also criticized the fire department for not inspecting the site for five months prior to the fire.

A fire department rule required inspections every 15 days.

"One the fire department side, pretty widespread throughout the city, noncompliance with their own inspection procedures as it relates to buildings under construction and demolition," said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn. "We found that in the supervisory ranks that it was known that those inspection procedures were not bring carried out.

Last year, three construction supervisors and one corporation were charged with criminal responsibility for the deaths of the firefighters.

FDNY and DOB officials say they will review the report and make policy adjustments if necessary.