MIDTOWN, NY — A man was killed in a four-alarm fire on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan on Saturday, officials said. Six firefighters were injured and suffered non-life threatening injuries. Neither President Trump, nor members of his family, who live part-time in the building, were present at the time.

Firefighters rushed to the tower on Fifth Avenue near East 57th after an automatic alarm went off in the building at about 5:30 p.m., Fire Commissioner Dan Nigro said at a press briefing. Firefighters arrived at the 68-story building about five minutes later. Firefighters discovered a large 50th floor apartment engulfed in fire and emergency responders rushed, Todd Brassner, the 67-year-old resident they found inside it, to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital in critical condition, police said. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital, according to NYPD officials.

Brassner was Andy Warhol's art dealer and appeared in the artist's autobiography multiple times, the New York Daily News reported. Warhol said they ate together at a Warhol's factory on Broadway in 1976. Several months later Brassner called Warhol and said he saw boxer Muhammad Ali in the Polo Lounge, the news outlet said, citing "The Andy Warhol Diaries." "The apartment was entirely on fire," FDNY officials wrote on Twitter. "Members pushed in heroically, they were knocking down the fire and found one occupant of the apartment."



No other civilian injuries have been reported. Two firefighters suffered burns, and four others sustained injuries, but none of their wounds were life-threatening, said officials. More than 200 firefighters and medical workers rushed to the scene.

"This was a very difficult fire," tweeted the FDNY. "As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large, we are 50 stories up."

Firefighters accompanied the Secret Service to check the president's residence — a triplex on the 66th, 67th and 68th floors — but it was unclear whether smoke had reached the unit. The units above the apartment where the fire happened, as they usually do, will have some amount of smoke, Nigro said.

The building had a considerable amount of smoke in it, Nigro said.

Fire in Trump Tower worsening pic.twitter.com/6T1VsOCsuP

— Peter Thomas Roth (@PeterThomasRoth) April 7, 2018 "We don't know the cause of the fire yet," Nigro said.