A fire has broken out on the upper floors of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the home of President Trump.

The blaze broke out on the 50th floor of the tower just before 6pm. A Fire Department of New York source tells DailyMail.com that the fire is a fourth alarm, with more than 200 fire firefighters tackling the huge blaze.

Thick black smoke billowed out from Trump Tower as burning debris fell on Fifth Avenue.

The male occupant of the apartment died after being transported to St. Luke's Hospital in critical condition, an NYPD source tells DailyMail.com.

Four firefighters also sustained non-life threatening injuries.

During a press conference at the scene, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said 'the apartment was virtually, entirely on fire' when firefighters arrived according to NBC4.

'They were knocking down the fire, they found one occupant,' Nigro said.

'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. 200 Firefighters and EMS members are on scene.'

'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,' Nigro added.

The FDNY had to search several floors because of the smoke condition above the 50 floor.

The fire was finally declared under control at around 7:45pm.

Melania Trump and the couple's son, Barron Trump, are both in Washington, D.C., according to the first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham.

The president is also in Washington D.C.

At least five fire trucks were seen responding to the fire on Fifth Avenue.

Trump has an office and home in the building.

At 6:42pm local time the president took to Twitter to share: 'Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!'

As of 6:55pm the FDNY said that they remained on scene. While the fire may be 'confined' firefighters will continue to battle the blaze until its determined to be under control.

Eric Trump also took to Twitter: 'Thank you to the amazing men and women of the NYFD who extinguished a fire in a residential apartment at @TrumpTower. The @FDNY and @NYPD are truly some of the most incredible people anywhere!'

While the building was not evacuated some people chose to self-evacuate.

The streets around Trump Tower are closed on 5th Avenue between East 55th Street and East 57th Street. West 56th Street is closed from 5th Avenue to Madison Avenue.

The FDNY has called this a mass emergency response and is sending dozens of firetrucks to the 58 story skyscraper.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...Tower-Manhattan.html

It will, of course, be interesting to learn what they determine the cause of the blaze to have been. One does regret the loss of life and the injuries.

flashguy

It makes you wonder about the cause of the fire, especially because a couple of weeks ago rats were released inside the hotel.

The ratcheting up of left-right hatred in this country is unlike anything I have ever seen here. If this fire was indeed set, it means that the leftist lashing out now includes felony crimes, including murder.

The cause of the fire was......an idiot


Per a tweet from the FDNY, fire marshals determined that the fire was started accidentally by “sequenced power strips powering multiple components.” They added that there was no smoke alarm installed in the affected apartment.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018...ed-by-officials.html

I once saw 18 things plugged into one duplex outlet that way. The upside is, usually the stuff people do that with doesn't draw much, phone chargers and other power supplies. Apparently not in this case however.