Fire Breaks Out at Trump Tower; Update: One dead, 4 injured
Last edited Sat Apr 7, 2018, 08:38 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: NBC
A fire erupted at Trump Tower in Midtown on Saturday evening, according to the FDNY.
The blaze broke out on the 50th floor of the tower shortly before 6 p.m., the FDNY said.
The severity of the fire wasn't immediately known, but the FDNY said it had no reports of injuries.
At least five fire trucks were seen responding to the fire on Fifth Avenue.
Read more: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Fire-Breaks-Out-at-Trump-Tower-FDNY-479061453.html
UPDATE:ONE DEAD, 4 INJURED: https://nypost.com/2018/04/07/fire-breaks-out-on-50th-floor-of-trump-tower/
Link to tweet
JI7
(89,281 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Eric Trump, the Presidents son and an executive vice president at the Trump Organization, confirmed the rooftop cooling tower ignited.
I knew it hadnt been long since the last fire...this one looks pretty damn bad though
riversedge
(70,388 posts)rocktivity
(44,583 posts)Or non-fireproof man-sized safes?
rocktivity
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He inflated the numbers of the floors - not kidding.
7962
(11,841 posts)I guess they all have huge egos, but tenants are also part of the problem. People equate a high floor number with being even MORE elite. So they give them what they want.
Ridiculous.
DBoon
(22,414 posts)nt
torius
(1,652 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)secondly, shithole and crew burning evidence?
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Big fire....big enough to take care of a lot of evidence quickly....
Was that an explosion sending material out the windows? At end of video it looks like something large and papers....
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)That's a big fire...
greatauntoftriplets
(175,764 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)RandySF
(59,558 posts)jmowreader
(50,572 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,993 posts)GreydeeThos
(958 posts)Trump has to keep ahead of the news cycle
CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)n/t
Locrian
(4,522 posts)Jarqui
(10,131 posts)who was listed as the only occupant (like Manafort) ?
'Sorry Mr. Mueller. That subpoena you issued burned up with some boxes of documents we had put together for you ... '
jpak
(41,760 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Ilsa
(61,709 posts)lastlib
(23,354 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,029 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)Auggie
(31,222 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,062 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/07/trump-tower-fire-50th-floor
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)Link to tweet
Turns out, the guy in Trump Tower whose apartment that just got torched is an ex-con money launderer of gambling money for the Russian mob, Helly Nahmad. Typical Trump clientele. You can't make this shit up!
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)elleng
(131,277 posts)wishstar
(5,272 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)...Nahmad owns apartments on the 51st Floor. That tweet is probably just an [incorrect] assumption; he didn't link it to a source.
Igel
(35,383 posts)But it blurs the line between what was proven (gambling) and what was suspected (money laundering).
Russians weren't his only clientele for the gambling. But at the time and place, they were the ostentatious-consumption folk. Like him. (Even though they probably disliked him because he was Jewish.)
jpak
(41,760 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)One person was killed in the fire and four firefighters were injured. Meanwhile 45 tweeted about how well-built his building is without mentioning the fatality or injuries.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
C Moon
(12,225 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,220 posts)concern about a deadly school shooting in Marshall County, Kentucky = a day and a half
Time it takes Trump to tweet reassurances about how the Trump Tower Tinderbox is "well built" = 30 minutes
Beacool
(30,253 posts)I'm sorry that someone died and others were injured. May the victim rest in peace.
Roy Rolling
(6,943 posts)I hope the landlords of that building are not gonna be sued.
Oh, who am I kidding? I'd love to see them dragged through court. It would be fitting that there was a fatality in Trump's building from something totally preventable by competent landlord.
DallasNE
(7,404 posts)We're they in working order? Kind of smells.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-sprinklers-in-upper-floors-of-trump-tower
TexasBushwhacker
(20,229 posts)From the NBCLosangeles article:
"Some fire-safety advocates pushed for a requirement that older apartment buildings be retrofitted with sprinklers when New York City passed a law requiring them in new residential highrises in 1999, but officials in the administration of then-mayor Rudy Giuliani said that would be too expensive."
Pale Blue Dot
(16,831 posts)Ill just add that conspiracy theory to the pile I would have laughed off mere months ago.
xor
(1,204 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,572 posts)"And a great, well-built building. A building that only catches fire occasionally."
SunSeeker
(51,777 posts)Sadly, there were victims. Not that you would ever know that from Trump's tweet.
onetexan
(13,078 posts)or that pinging computer versus shredding
greyl
(22,990 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)n/t.