bankruptcy in dealing with health issues. six firefighters suffered minor injuries battling this blaze. at least two with burns. quite a large department. units made their way up to the 50th floor appeared the apartment was virtually entirely on fire. the upper floors, but the building shore stood up quite well. reporter: you are looking at a live shot right there in the actual apartment. no fire sprinklers in the residential area in this building which may come as a surprise to some folks. this is built in 1983 when fire sprinklers aren t actually supposed to be aren t actually required by law and other buildings and residential buildings don t have to have the sprinklers installed. nonetheless, terrified residents inside that they never got an announcement to evacuate and the president did read about the fire yesterday stating fire at
almost 24 hours now investigating. the fire broke out on the 50th floor about 5:30 yesterday afternoon. black smoke could be seen billowing from the building. inside a 67-year-old, todd brassner, died from his injuries. he was the resident in that apartment. fire officials say they were alerted to this fire because of an automated alarm system which means that mr. brassner was unable to call 911 himself for help. a lot of talk is swirling today about the lack of fire sprinklers on those floors. that has to do with new york building code. the code that required sprinklers to be put in big residential buildings like this wasn t passed until the late 90s. this building was completed in 1983. it s not required to have those sprinklers until major renovation takes place which as far as we know hadn t occurred on that 50th floor. blake mccoy outside trump tower in new york a few blocks away from me here at 30 rock. thank you. when and if president trump
bills. i think mr. mueller is the perfect guy to get to @ bottom of all of this and he will. i think my job, among others, is to give thim the space to do. it. i have legislation protecting mr. mueller and i ll be glad to pass it tomorrow. you said that you haven t seen the need for legislation protecting mueller. do you see the need now? it probably wouldn t hurt for us to pass one of those bills. would you support legislation to protect mueller? i don t think there s a need for legislation to protect mueller. so saying they are ready to pass these bills. your colleague from california saying he sees no need. do you think there s nuf support for both parties in congress to get these bills pass ed? we need action, not just words. there s bye-bye the sentiment to protect him. but if it you wait until the match is lit to install the fire sprinklers, it s too late. we shouldn t wait for the president to fire bob mueller. we can act and put in
[inaudible] reporter: fighters dispersing in california california, nothing could have stopped that. that s a different thing. fire sprinklers can make a difference. tell us about as. as they light the fires, what s changed in california s fuels in the forests have changed, so have the field of our homes. what you hear it now, the smoke alarm currently morning. the exact same situations. one with a sprinkler, one without. you see the flames go across the ceiling. the fire is being contained. it is deactivated as the woman of the sprinkler is closest to the fire goes out. as you see now the sprinklers control the fire. reporter: chief, i want to ask you this.
raise your expectations and ask your gastroenterologist if humira may be right for you. with humira, control is possible. most residents will be able to return home after a deadly fire at a honolulu high-rise. the fire killing three people, injuring 12 after flames broke out in a unit on the 26th floor on friday. officials say three floors remain closed because of heavy damage. the building was not equipped with fire sprinklers that would have contained this blaze. and we re learning that the elevators were not working when the fire started. will carr is live from our l.a. bureau. will, do we know exactly what started the fire? well, rob, not yet. that s still under investigation. but we do know what kept the fire raging. the lack of sprinklers. it sparked around 2:15 in the afternoon.