Man Dies at Trump Tower Fire

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FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro noted the blaze was harder to fight because the building’s residential floors lacked sprinklers and fire was on the 50th floor.


April 8, 2018

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...alled-crazy-jew-prez-friend-article-1.3922739


Donald Tump once lobbied against fire sprinklers in existing New York high-rises, including Trump Tower

January 1999 article in the New York Post, Trump personally “called a dozen council members to lobby against sprinklers.” He also donated $5,000 to retire the campaign debt of Peter Vallone, then the council’s speaker. Trump told the New York Times he had both ”received and placed calls” to city officials about the sprinkler proposal, including to Archie Spigner, the chairman at the time of the council’s Housing and Buildings Committee.


Due to the contentious late 1990s debate over fire safety, sprinklers were not installed in the Trump property, safeguards that perhaps may have stopped or limited this weekend’s blaze.

“The upper floors, which are residence floors, are not sprinklered,” New York City Fire Department Commissioner Dan Nigro said at a news conference, the New York Daily News reported. “

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-towers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2800f03b517b

 

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[Blue]

The cult will find some way to rationalize him not installing basic fire protection, indirectly ultimately killing a guest, and thus destroying his own property, with being a top notch businessman.

 

[Hypoxia]

Failure to install required safety features (a fucking FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEM!) plus fatality due to fire equals wrongful death lawsuits.

 

[KeithD]

Alas, there were no sprinkler requirements for residential floors when the building was built or laws to retrofit until/unless there was a formal renovation. The man likely wasn't a guest. He likely owned that apartment and had every reason to know sprinklers weren't there. What Trump points to and is relevant, is that, although the apartment was engulfed in flames that poured out the windows, everything around it held. So, it's not really a fire trap building. Yes, of course, it would be good to retrofit a sprinkler system--which would be the combined responsibility of those owning those residents. Trump may not own any more of the apartments than his own in the building now.

One less escape retreat for Melania and Baron now, though. Maybe there's somewhere in Serbia she can hide. With her parents? But no, they are here now--living here under the immigration laws that Trump opposes.

It's fun to dink Trump personally on the Trump Tower fire, but it sinks into the mediocre in terms of the material available to dink Trump about.

 

[Hypoxia]

Alas, there were no sprinkler requirements for residential floors when the building was built or laws to retrofit until/unless there was a formal renovation. <snip> It's fun to dink Trump personally on the Trump Tower fire, but it sinks into the mediocre in terms of the material available to dink Trump about.

Lack of sprinklers didn't just happen. Trump once fought measure requiring water sprinklers in Trump Tower.. Lots of lobbying and campaign contributions did the trick. Yes, Trump has earned dinking over a near-infinitude of slimy deeds and words. This is yet another, with preventable death.

 

[KeithD]

Lack of sprinklers was the current status for residential floors at the time the Trump Tower was built--for all buildings in Manhattan. He didn't influence to change a law; he influenced to keep a law from being enacted. You can only beat him so hard on a law that didn't exist. You're majoring in the minors.