On the 50th floor, I think they said (on CBS news, just now.) Apparently it is getting worse. (I’m sure there will be any number of links that can be found in the hours and days to come.)
And my post was already outdated at the time I made it. Fire put out at around the time I was writing the post, one serious injury.
Newscaster about the building in NYC: “The home of the president.”
In his tweet about the fire D2S managed to work in what a “well built building” it is. I instantly assumed it is in fact poorly constructed.
The source of the fire has been determined to be “pants.”
Well done!
I assumed there were some documents on the 50th floor that were about to be subpoenaed.
Is gold leaf flammable?
I saw this about four times on Facebook before I realized it wasn’t a metaphor.
Update: One killed.
Predictably, the Orange Fucking Moron is too incompetent and unoriginal to even pull off a Reichstag Fire.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the building isn’t up to code. Why waste money on an expensive sprinkler system when you can make a deal with building inspector?
I assumed it was a dumpster.
Must have been Hot pants!
I was just speculating above but I wasn’t too far off from reality:
1.2 million for sprinklers. Pocket change even if Trump was only worth 1 billion.
T*he Roof, The Roof, The Roof is on Fire!
We don’t need no water…
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A sad story…
It’s always sad to see people in a downward spiral, and Brassner appears to have been in decline for years before the fire. The article notes that “the apartment was so cluttered Mr. Brassner could barely move”; one wonders whether this caused or significantly contributed to the fire.
I’m torn on the whole “he couldn’t sell his apartment because of Trump” elements of the article. On the one hand it seems like it was included as a side jab at The Donald; on the other, his inability to sell a $2.5m apartment despite bankruptcy is relevant to the article. I dunno. In any case, it’s a sad end to a sad life.
There are reportedly no sprinklers on the residential floors. Unclear if they were required by code when the building was built. Or if it was built well enough for the contractors to get paid.