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Very large apartment with lots of furniture 50 stories up. >> units made their way up to the 50th floor. the apartment was virtually entirely on fire. they pushed in. heroically they were knocking down the fire and found one occupant. >> reporter: the 51-year-old male resident was later pronounced dead at st. lukes. more than 200 firefighters battled this fire with lots of smoke damaging other apartments above. president trump and his family were not in the building and the president tweeted just an hour after the fire broke out, fire at trump tower is out. very confined. well built building. ...

The fire commissioner talked about how difficult it was to fight this fire. >> the units have to get there and have to hook up to a stand pipe system with their hose, takes a little longer. the fire, of course, the building is -- it contains the heat, it contains the smoke. it was extremely hot in the apartment. >> reporter: several groups of tourists were inside trump tower walking near the trump store and shared their videos of the fire and their stories of being evacuated. >> it was a little scary. i'm not going to lie. >> we see the fire and the flames coming out. i was scared for a while....