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U.S. NEWS Monday 9 april 2018

Trump once fought measure requiring sprinklers in buildings

By KAREN MATTHEWS velopers who spoke out
Associated Press against the retrofitting as
NEW YORK (AP) — The 50th- unnecessary and expen-
floor apartment in Trump sive.
Tower where a man was He later changed his views,
killed in a raging fire did not saying sprinklers made
have sprinklers — a require- tenants feel safer. He ulti-
ment Donald Trump once mately decided to spend
fought as a powerful real $3 million to put sprinklers in
estate developer. all 350 units of Trump World
Todd Brassner, 67, died at Tower near the United Na-
a hospital on Saturday af- tions, The New York Times
ter a fire ripped through his reported.
apartment in the high-rise, “People feel safer with
which opened in 1983 at a sprinklers,” Trump said in
time when building codes 1999, according to The
did not require the residen- Times. “But the problem
tial section to have sprin- with the bill is that it doesn’t
klers. Subsequent updates address the buildings that
to the codes required need sprinklers the most. If
commercial skyscrapers you look at the fire deaths Fire damage is seen on a side of Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, April 7, 2018. The Fire De-
to install sprinklers retroac- in New York, almost all of partment says the blaze broke out on the 50th floor shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday.
tively, but owners of older them are in one-or two- Associated Press
residential high-rises are not family houses.” He is mentioned several in the last few years he was (and women) did a great
required to install them un- The city’s Department of times in Warhol’s posthu- “plagued with debilitating job. THANK YOU!”
less the building undergoes Buildings on Sunday said mously published diaries, medical problems” that He has not tweeted about
major renovations. Trump Tower did have with references including made it “difficult for him to Brassner’s death.
Some fire safety advocates working hard-wired smoke lunch dates and shared function.” No member of the Trump
pushed for a requirement detectors, and that the fire taxis. The artist signed and New York Fire Commissioner family was in the 664-foot
that older apartment build- department was first noti- dedicated at least one Daniel Nigro said the apart- tower on Saturday.
ings be retrofitted with sprin- fied of the blaze by the print to him. ment was “virtually entirely Trump’s family has an
klers when the city passed detectors in the building’s But in recent years, Brass- on fire” when firefighters ar- apartment on the top floors
a law requiring them in heating and ventilation sys- ner had financial problems rived. of the 58-story building, but
new residential high-rises in tem. A cause had not yet and went through bank- Trump, who was in Wash- he has spent little time in
1999, but officials in the ad- been determined. ruptcy proceedings. Ac- ington, sent out a tweet be- New York since taking of-
ministration of then-mayor Brassner, who records show cording to documents, his fore the fatality was report- fice.
Rudolph Giuliani said that bought his unit in 1996, was family stopped helping him ed: “Fire at Trump Tower is The headquarters of the
would be too expensive. an art collector who spent pursue buying and selling out. Very confined (well Trump Organization is on
Trump was among the de- time with Andy Warhol. art at the end of 2014, and built building). Firemen the 26th floor.q

Injuries in human-smuggling crash on California highway

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A horse crash Saturday near the hauled by a pickup truck After a search of the area known.
trailer carrying at least town of Campo, with inju- began to fishtail and even- authorities were able to Border Patrol officials said
18 people who entered ries described as moder- tually tipped onto its right round up most, if not all, the driver of the pickup
the country illegally over- ate and minor. Six patients side along northbound In- involved, said Border Pa- had not yet been identi-
turned on a Southern Cali- were hospitalized, the San terstate 8. trol Agent Eduardo Olmos. fied and it was unclear if
fornia highway just north Diego Union-Tribune re- Several people scrambled CHP and Cal Fire reported he or she was in custody.
of the border with Mexico, ported. from the trailer after the 18 individuals, while Border Olmos said it was not yet
authorities said. A witness told the Califor- crash and many ran away, Patrol said there were 19; known where the people
Several people inside the nia Highway Patrol that the newspaper said. No the reason for the discrep- made illegal entry into the
trailer were hurt in the the two-axle trailer being horses were inside. ancy wasn’t immediately United States.q