No, it costs too much
President Donald Trump previously lobbied against a proposed bill requiring high-rise buildings, like Trump Tower, to install life-saving sprinkler systems. A fire in his 5th Avenue building Saturday, with no sprinklers present, left one person dead and multiple firefighters injured.
Then one of New York’s most prominent real estate developers, Trump in 1999 rang city officials to argue against proposed legislation that would have required high-rise landlords to install the systems following fatal high-rise fires in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The December 1998 blazes killed nine people, including seven firemen.
Trump said it would be too expensive. The bill was altered to exclude older buildings, like for instance, oh just picking one at random, Trump Tower, opened in 1983.
Last night’s blaze tore through part of the 50th floor of the 5th Avenue Trump Tower.
“We found fire on the 50th floor of the building. The apartment was entirely on fire. Members pushed in heroically, they were knocking down the fire and found one occupant of the apartment,” Daniel Nigro, Commissioner of the New York City Fire Department, said.
That resident, a 67 year-old man, was found by firefighters passed out from fume inhalation, and later died in hospital. Seven firefighters were also injured in the blaze.
“This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up,” Nigro said.
With no sprinklers.
Of course, Trump’s concerns will be; what were the ratings for the live tv coverage of the fire?; how much can I over-claim on the insurance?; what the fuck is a Nigro doing bad-mouthing my building to the press? The apartments aren’t quite large, they’re yoooge.
In a just world, Trump would find himself convicted of gross negligence. But this is not a just world. If it were, he would not be President.
@iknklast
This is one area where we in the UK win in a horribleness match with Trump. He just doesn’t fit sprinklers and lobbies so he, specifically, doesn’t have to. We actively stick things on buildings that happen to make them burn and kill people more efficiently so they look nicer (when not on fire) to rich people in other neighbourhoods who happen to glance in that direction.
Then, of course, our government never-agains (eventually) but then quietly makes it much more likely to happen again.
So….we…..win…..I……guess….
latsot, I did hear about that. When I say a just world, I believe there is evidence that NO part of the world fits that. It’s a disgrace to our species what we allow to happen because it’s easier not to notice, and lots easier not to do anything, to assume it’s someone else’s problem.
I wonder if Trump hasa sprinkler system installed in his own apartment.
Wouldn’t want all that gold to melt down, would he?
YNnB, I don’t think that paint melts so much as burns. There’s not enough real gold in his entire building to make a wedding ring for a Barbie doll? The real, plastic one, that is, not one of the many replicas (ironically; is there anything genuine in TrumpWorld?) that Trump surrounds himself with.