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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)
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