Reuters
New York City fire officials on Sunday were investigating the Trump Tower fire that killed one resident who lived alone on the 50th floor of the Manhattan building but the cause hasn’t been found.
President Donald Trump, who has an office and penthouse home in the Fifth Avenue building, wasn’t in New York City on Saturday night when the fire occurred.
Todd Brassner, 67, was initially taken to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead later Saturday night, according to the New York Police Department. Four firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries, including two taken to the hospital with burns.
Fire Department of New York Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Brassner’s apartment was “virtually entirely on fire.”
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The residential floor of the tower where Brassner lived didn’t have sprinklers, according to a fire department spokesman. Sprinklers weren’t required when Trump Tower was built. The building didn’t violate any building codes, the official said.
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
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