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In this screen grab, fire breaks out on the roof of the Trump Tower on Jan. 8, 2017. (The Jakarta Post/Twitter)
The New York fire department has responded to a blaze at Trump Tower on Monday morning local time.
News footage showed a small fire broke out on the roof of Trump Tower and that firefighters could be seen on the roof of the skyscraper, at East 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
The fire department was quoted by the New York Daily News as saying that the blaze broke out in the building’s heating and cooling system.
NYPD was alerted to a fire on the Trump Tower roof this morning (video via @constanandy) pic.twitter.com/vXn8Q59Sg6
— UPROXX News (@UPROXXNews) January 8, 2018
It also reported that firefighters on the scene quickly knocked the fire back, but they are currently making sure it didn’t spread.
The newspaper's website reported that no injuries were immediately reported, and that President Donald Trump was in Washington at the time of the fire.
