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EveHammond13

(2,855 posts)
Mon Apr 15, 2019, 03:36 PM Apr 2019

remember - a man died in a fire in Trump Tower last year bc no sprinklers

so STFU trump

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/4/9/17215222/trump-tower-fire-nyc-death-sprinklers

Trump fought law requiring retrofit of sprinklers in New York City high-rises

A proposed 1998 law that would have required developers to install sprinklers in existing residential towers is back in the news, after a deadly fire in Trump Tower over the weekend

Twenty years ago, now-President Donald Trump played a key role in lobbying against a law that would have required older residential buildings in New York City to be retrofitted with sprinkler systems. Fire safety experts have pointed out that such a sprinkler system could have mitigated the deadly effect of this weekend’s Trump Tower fire that killed one person on Saturday evening.

A four-alarm fire broke out on the 50th floor of Midtown’s Trump Tower in the apartment where 67-year-old art collector and dealer Todd Brassner lived. It is unclear what sparked the blaze, which also injured six firefighters. There were no sprinklers installed in Brassner’s 50th floor unit.

Fire experts agree that sprinklers have proved critical for saving lives in New York City’s high-rise fires.

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