A lack of regulation bites Trump

[Loren Pechtel]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tower-fire-second-2018-blaze-in-sprinkler-free-residence/

1 dead, 6 firefighters hurt.

He opposed mandated fire sprinklers, now he reaps the result of what he sowed.

 

[Patooka]

And the official comment is...

Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!

Yes. That was Trump's tweet about it all. Stay classy, fuckwit.

 

[Rhea]

Remember when he said he could kill somebody on 5th Avenue and his troglodytes wouldn’t leave him?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

So, Trump refused to add a sprinkler system, and now somebody has died in a fire in his fire trap building? Oh well, what's another lawsuit to add to the pile? He should have added that sprinkler system. To keep the lawyers at bay.

 

[Rhea]

In the end, I lament that this doesn’t bit Trump at all - it bites the poor man who dies, and those who were injured; and Trump laughs all the way to the bank as always, certain in his delusion that it’s not a result of anything he did.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Dunno. Will the building's insurer pay for damage caused by not having a mandated sprinkler system? They may fight it and to get the building habitable again may cost Trump out of pocket. More lawsuits starting in 3... 2... 1...

 

[whollygoats]

Doesn't the lack of adequate safety equipment make the building a "shithole"?

Did the other tenants know that the building was inadequately protected? If they didn't, they do now.

 

[Jayjay]

Doesn't the lack of adequate safety equipment make the building a "shithole"?

Did the other tenants know that the building was inadequately protected? If they didn't, they do now.

It's a well built building (very confined fire), so it doesn't matter if it catches fire occasionally. Firemen (and women) would be jobless if it weren't for buildings like this.

 

[whollygoats]

Doesn't the lack of adequate safety equipment make the building a "shithole"?

Did the other tenants know that the building was inadequately protected? If they didn't, they do now.

It's a well built building (very confined fire), so it doesn't matter if it catches fire occasionally. Firemen (and women) would be jobless if it weren't for buildings like this.

Oh, yeah....I forgot. He's in the firetrap shithole business. Or, is it a shithole firetrap business? A slumlord.

As for fireman being jobless if it weren't for buildings like this, just how stupid do you think we are? Firemen are still necessary whether there are life-saving fire-fighting sprinkler systems installed as a first line of defense, or not. In terms of public policy, it might reduce the demand for large numbers of highly trained first-responders, thereby reducing the burden upon the public to maintain such.