NEW YORK — The 50th-floor apartment in Trump Tower where a man was killed in a raging fire did not have sprinklers, a requirement Donald Trump once fought as a real estate developer.

Todd Brassner, 67, died at a hospital on Saturday after a fire ripped through his apartment in the high-rise, which opened in 1983 at a time when building codes did not require the residential section to have sprinklers. Subsequent updates to the codes required skyscrapers to install sprinklers retroactively, but owners of older residential high-rises are not required to install them unless the building undergoes major renovations.

Some fire safety advocates pushed for older apartment buildings to be retrofitted with sprinklers, but officials in the administration of then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani said that would be too expensive.

Trump was among the ­developers who spoke out against the retrofitting as ­unnecessary and expensive.

He later changed his views, saying sprinklers made tenants feel safer. He ultimately spent $3 million to put sprinklers in all 350 units of Trump World Tower near the United Nations, The New York Times reported.

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