Michael suggested that fire sprinklers are optional in only three types of homes: single-family detached homes, single-family detached homes, and townhouses. These buildings cannot exceed three stories.
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Here are the fire sprinkler requirements that Donald Trump hates so much
By – ERIKA HARWOOD (April 9, 2018)
There were no sprinklers installed in the 50th-floor apartment that caught fire in Trump Tower on Saturday, killing resident Todd Brassner.
Um fi we are on the 50th floor of the Trump Tower Saturday killed 67-year-old resident Todd Brassner, an art dealer — and raised questions about the building's total lack of fire sprinklers. When Trump Tower was built in 1983, sprinklers in residential buildings were not required. It wasn't until 1998, when two massive fires in New York City killed seven people, that then-mayor Rudy Giuliani was asked to propose fire sprinklers as a requirement.
Trump was concerned about the proposed legislation, claiming that installation was expensive and that tenants considered fire sprinklers unsightly. According to for The New York Times in a 1994 memo noted that “sprinklers are the most effective fire prevention tool available—other than casualties due to firefighting and explosions, there are no records of multiple losses of life in buildings fully equipped with sprinklers.” ”.
In March 1999, Trump agreed to pay $3 million to install sprinklers in the 350 units of his Trump World Tower, a residential building that was under construction.
“People feel safer with sprinklers” he said The New York Times. “But the problem with the bill is that it doesn’t address the buildings that need sprinklers the most. If you look at fire deaths in New York, almost all of them occurred in one- or two-family homes.”
According to the consultancy New York engineers, fire sprinklers are optional in only three types of homes: single-family detached homes, single-family detached homes, and townhouses. These buildings cannot exceed three stories.
It is not yet known what caused the fire at Trump Tower on Saturday and whether a sprinkler system could have prevented Brassner's death. On the night of the fire, Trump tweeted , “The fire in Trump Tower is over. Very confined (well-built building). The firefighters (and women) did a great job. THANKS!" He did not recognize Brassner, whom the president once called a “crazy Jew,” according to a friend of Brassner. Patricio Goldsmith, by O Daily News .
Another friend of Brassner, Stephen Dwire, counted The New York Times reported that Brassner had been trying to sell his apartment since Trump was elected president.
“He said, 'This is getting unsustainable,'” he said. “It was like living in an armed camp. But when people found out it was a Trump building, he couldn’t hand it over.”
