A firefighter looks out from the window of a damaged apartment in Trump Tower in New York on Saturday. | Craig Ruttle/AP Photo 1 killed in fire at Trump Tower

A man died Saturday after a raging apartment fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan.

No one from the Trump family was present in the building at the time of the fire, New York City Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. A man who was in the apartment that caught fire was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries, officials said.


Two hundred New York City firefighters and emergency medical services workers responded to the scene around 5:30 p.m. Four firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the department said.

As of 8 p.m., the fire department tweeted that the blaze was not considered under control because of smoke conditions on floors above the 50th.

Hours earlier before reports of the casualty, President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump tweeted thanks to New York City firefighters for their quick response.

“Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job,” the president wrote on Twitter at 6:42 p.m.

Firetrucks arrive outside Trump Tower in New York on Sunday as a fire burns on the 50th floor of the building owned by President Donald Trump. | Laura Bonill Cal/AFP/Getty Images

According to the Associated Press, Fire Commissioner Nigro agreed with Trump’s assessment that the tower was well-built but noted that the upper residential floors don’t have fire sprinklers. When Trump Tower was built in 1983, sprinklers weren’t required in high-rises, the AP reported.

In addition to housing the headquarters for the Trump Organization, the tower is one of the president’s private residences and was where his presidential campaign and transition were based out of.

The Secret Service referred comments to the fire department.