No working smoke detector was found in the 50th-floor Trump Tower apartment that went up in flames in New York over the weekend, killing a man, a senior Fire Department official briefed on the investigation said Monday.

In another development, the New York City medical examiner's office said the victim, Todd Brassner, 67, who was transported to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in critical condition, died of smoke inhalation.

The four-alarm fire that engulfed a Trump Tower apartment Saturday evening remains under investigation by the fire marshal's office. With no sprinklers or working smoke detector in the apartment, the fire in Brassner's apartment was difficult for firefighters to tackle.

The high-rise opened in 1983, when there were no requirements for sprinklers on residential floors.

Six firefighters were injured, according to the Fire Department. Three were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, and three were treated at the scene. </s> New York (CNN) The Trump Tower apartment where a deadly fire started Saturday had no working smoke alarm, a New York City Fire Department source familiar with the investigation said -- which means there was no alarm sounding in the unit when firefighters arrived.

The fire on the 50th floor of the New York City highrise left one man dead and six firefighters injured, the FDNY said. The victim was identified as Todd Brassner, 67.

The FDNY was notified of the fire by a building-wide alarm system in Trump Tower, the source said. This system alerted the fire department to the location of the fire, including the floor of the blaze. Such alarm systems are common, and they are not audible in the entire building to prevent people from evacuating all at once and clogging staircases for firefighters.

The fire was contained to the 50th floor of the apartment building, which is located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The President resides in the penthouse when he's in New York City. No members of the Trump family were in the tower during the fire, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.

The upper-level residential floors of the 58-story building are not equipped with fire sprinklers, Nigro said.

Read More </s> NEW YORK (Reuters) - One man was killed and six firefighters received minor injuries in an apartment fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, in a blaze that was quickly extinguished, fire officials said.

 The victim, Todd Brassner, 67, was found unresponsive and unconscious in his 50th floor apartment and was pronounced dead at an area hospital, police said.

 No information about the cause of the fire was available late Saturday night.

 U.S. President Donald Trump, who has an office and a private residence in the midtown Manhattan structure, was not in the building at the time.

 "Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!" Trump tweeted.

 Fire officials said no member of the Trump family was in the building at the time.

 "This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke," Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said on Twitter.

 About 200 fire personnel responded to the incident that the department said was a four-alarm fire.

 Video on social media showed flames outside of a few windows and black smoke billowing up from the high-rise.

 In January, three people were injured in an early-morning fire at the top of Trump Tower. One firefighter was hospitalized while two people received minor injuries that were treated at the scene, the New York Fire Department said.

 In addition to the president's 66th-floor penthouse, Trump Tower houses the headquarters of the Trump Organization as well as other residences, offices and stores.

 

 (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas and Meredith Mazzilli in New York, additional reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; Editing by Sandra Maler) </s> An elderly man died late Saturday and four firefighters were injured after a blaze erupted on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York, officials said.

The New York Police Department said 67-year-old Todd Brassner was found "unconscious and unresponsive" when officers arrived at the scene.

Brassner -- a Trump Tower resident identified by US media as an art dealer -- was pronounced dead after being taken to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, according to police, which said the medical examiner's office would determine the cause of death as part of an ongoing investigation.

"This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke," the New York City Fire Department said. </s> The man who was killed when a raging fire broke out in his apartment on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan early Saturday evening has been identified as a Westchester native.

The blaze, which was upgraded from three alarms to four alarms, erupted at the 58-story, 664-foot high mixed-use skyscraper on Fifth Avenue near West 56th Street just before 6 p.m.

Firefighters found the man, identified as 67-year-old Todd Brassner, unconscious and unresponsive when they entered the apartment.

"The apartment was entirely on fire," FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. "Members pushed in heroically, they were knocking down the fire and found one occupant of the apartment who is in critical condition."

Brassner was transported in critical condition to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, where he died a short time later.

Four of the approximately 200 firefighters who responded suffered non-life threatening injuries, the FDNY said.

FDNY members remained at the scene after the fire was knocked down, searching floors and assessing smoke conditions. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

"This was a very difficult fire," Nigro reported. "As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke."

Brassner, an art dealer who purchased his high-rise apartment in 1996, had been struggling financially, the New York Post reported.

Brassner was a 1969 graduate of the New Rochelle Academy, a private school that closed in 1987.

"Fire at Trump Tower is out," President Donald Trump tweeted. "Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!"

"Thank you to the amazing men and women of the NYFD who extinguished a fire in a residential apartment at @TrumpTower," tweeted Trump's son, Eric, who lives at the family's Seven Springs Estate in Bedford. "The @FDNY and @NYPD are truly some of the most incredible people anywhere!"

The building houses the $100 million penthouse condominium residence of the building's namesake and developer, President Trump.

Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts. </s> Broken and burned windows are seen after a fire broke out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower on April 7, 2018, in New York City.

NEW YORK - An elderly man died late Saturday after a blaze erupted on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York which also injured four firefighters, officials said.

The New York Police Department said the 67-year-old man was found "unconscious and unresponsive" when officers arrived at the scene of the fire.

The man was pronounced dead after being taken to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, according to police, which said the medical examiner's office would determine the cause of death as part of an ongoing investigation.

"This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke," the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said.

It said the four firefighters had "non-life threatening" injuries and that the blaze had been brought "under control." Smoke began rising from the skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan around 6:00 pm (2200 GMT).

Streets surrounding the building owned by US President Donald Trump that serves as the headquarters for The Trump Organisation and houses the president's penthouse were closed off as tourists snapped pictures on their phones.

The FDNY earlier tweeted a picture of the building with several windows of the 50th floor ablaze.

Trump later said the fire had been extinguished.

"Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!" he said. </s> One person is dead and four firefighters are left with non-life-threatening injuries after a fire broke out on the 50th floor at Trump Tower in central Manhattan.

One person was killed and four firefighters were injured in an apartment fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in central Manhattan, fire officials said.

Todd Brassner, a 67-year-old resident of the building, was found unresponsive and unconscious in the apartment. He later died in hospital.

New York Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the cause of the blaze was not yet known but the apartment was "virtually entirely on fire" when firefighters arrived just after 5:30pm on Saturday (local time).

"This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up. The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke," Mr Nigro said on Twitter.

United States President Donald Trump, who has an office and a private residence in the midtown Manhattan structure, was not in the building at the time.

"Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined [well built building]. Firemen [and women] did a great job. THANK YOU!" Mr Trump tweeted.

No member of the Trump family was in the building at the time.

When asked if Mr Trump's assessment of the building was accurate, Mr Nigro said, "it's a well-built building. The upper floors, the residence floors, are not sprinklered".

Fire sprinklers were not required in New York City high-rises when Trump Tower was completed in 1983.

Subsequent updates to the building code required commercial skyscrapers to install the sprinklers retroactively, but owners of the older residential high-rises were not required to install sprinklers unless the building underwent major renovations.

Mr Nigro said firefighters and Secret Service members checked on the condition of Mr Trump's apartment on the top floors of the 58-storey building.

About 200 fire personnel responded to the incident that the department said was a four-alarm fire.

Video on social media showed flames outside of a few windows and black smoke billowing up from the high-rise.

In January, three people were injured in an early-morning fire at the top of Trump Tower.

One firefighter was hospitalised while two people received minor injuries that were treated at the scene, the New York Fire Department said.

In addition to the president's 66th-floor penthouse, Trump Tower houses the headquarters of the Trump Organisation as well as other residences, offices and stores.

'It reminded me of 9/11'

Some residents said they didn't get any notification from building management to evacuate.

Lalitha Masson, a 76-year-old resident, called it "a very, very terrifying experience".

Ms Masson, who lives on the 36th floor with her 79-year-old husband who has Parkinson's disease, told The New York Times that she did not receive any announcement about leaving and nobody answered when she called the front desk.

She said she started praying because she felt it was the end.

"I called my oldest son and said goodbye to him because the way it looked everything was falling out of the window, and it reminded me of 9/11," she said. </s> There was a fire at Trump Tower. It wasn’t any ordinary fire either. According to CNN the fire left one dead and six fire fighters injured. What made the fire so strange is that the upper floors have no fire sprinklers. There was also reports from residents that they received no call for evacuation.

The man was identified as Todd Brassner. He was unconscious when discovered. Although he was brought to the hospital he unfortunately didn’t make it. He previously took up residence on the 50th floor of the Trump Tower.

This isn’t the first occurrence of fire that the tower has experienced. Just three months before a fire happened in the cooling tower.

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The Trump’s have made some comments. Both Donald Trump and his son congratulated the fire department for their work.

Also On 97.9 The Beat: </s> One man was killed and six firefighters were injured after a Saturday evening fire extensively damaged an apartment on the 50th floor of New York City’s Trump Tower.

No members of the Trump family were in the Manhattan skyscraper when the fire broke out at 5:30 p.m. in the apartment of Todd Brassner, 67, according to Politico. Brassner was pulled from his apartment by firefighters, but later died at Mount Sinai Hospital, ABC News reported.

FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said none of the injuries suffered by the six injured firefighters were life-threatening. Two of the six suffered burns fighting the blaze in the 58-story structure.

“This is a very difficult fire, as you can imagine. The apartment is quite large. We’re 50 stories up. The rest of the building had considerable amount of smoke,” Nigro said, according to WABC.

About 200 fire and emergency workers responded to the four-alarm fire, which sent glass and other debris tumbling to the street below as a large crowd of onlookers gathered. Fire officials declared the fire under control at 8 p.m.

President Donald Trump tweeted his thanks for their efforts, while also praising Trump Tower for being “well built.”

“Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!” Trump tweeted.

Eric Trump emulated his father in thanking first responders.

“Thank you to the amazing men and women of the NYFD who extinguished a fire in a residential apartment at @TrumpTower. The @FDNYand @NYPD are truly some of the most incredible people anywhere!” he tweeted.

The cause of the fire had not been released as of Sunday morning.

“Units went up with the Secret Service afterwards to check the president’s residence. Some smoke reached the rest of the building, whether it’s in the apartment, I don’t know right now. But the floors above the fire of course as they usually do will have some amount of smoke,” said Nigro, referring to the 58th-floor residence of the president and his family.

Nigro said firefighters put themselves in danger to fight the blaze, the New York Post reported.

“The apartment was virtually entirely on fire,” he said. “They pushed in heroically. They were knocking down the fire. They found one occupant of the apartment on the 50th floor.”

Nigro said there were no sprinklers in the top floors of the building. However, the building was built prior to the 1983 law requiring sprinklers.

What do you think? Scroll down to comment below. </s> A 67-year-old man died after being injured in a fire at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday. Neither President Trump nor his family was in the building.
Investigators say Trump Tower, where a man died in a fire yesterday, had no working smoke alarms.