Denise was celebrating in Dubai with her beau Eddie Boxshall, daughter Betsy with ex Lee Mead & buddies, together with Abbey Clancy’s sister Elle. The blaze broke out just a couple of hours before the fireworks show, which went ahead as scheduled.
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Dubai-based Emaar Properties, which built the Burj Khalifa, the Address Downtown and other surrounding developments, declined to immediately answer questions about the fire posed by The Associated Press.
14 injured in Dubai hotel blaze
A firefighter at the scene of the Address Hotel fire in Dubai on New Years Eve is the son of the ruler of Dubai , it has emerged. Many were undeterred by the fire, with tens of thousands of people staying to watch the nearby fireworks show – which went on.
Smoke billows from the Address Downtown skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. On New Year’s two years ago, Dubai made global headlines when the city broke the world record for largest fireworks display.
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Wounded people are seen outside the Address Downtown Dubai hotel and residential block after a fire engulfed the skyscraper in downtown Dubai in the United Arab Emirates December 31, 2015.
“It spread so quickly when it started”, he said.
The five-star, 63-floor Address Downton hotel had almost 20 storeys engulfed in flames hours before the city’s midnight fireworks display.
An Aigburth woman holidaying in Dubai spoke of her horror after watching a huge fire rip through a 63-storey Dubai hotel as New Year celebrations got under way.
“The alarms went off when the building was already properly on fire”, he said.
Authorities are still trying to pinpoint the fire’s cause. The hotel towers over the Souq Al Bahar, a popular shopping area with walkways that connect to the Burj Khalifa and the Middle East’s largest mall, the Dubai Mall.
The hashtag #NeedanAddress trended on Twitter overnight as Dubai residents offered to open their homes to evacuated hotel guests.
Burning debris rained down from the building as fire trucks raced to the scene.
A growing tourist destination, Dubai has become famed in recent years for its distinctive skyline and ambitious building projects, but has suffered from a number of spectacular fires.
The fire was reported to have originated from the 20 floor at around 9:30pm local time and the flames seemed to run up from the ground floor to 40 or more stories.
Then she said she realized, “Oh my God … that’s a fire”.
There were also thousands of people in the streets below and in the adjacent buildings, all waiting to view the highly anticipated New Year’s Eve fireworks display, among them my youngest sister.
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Organizers said earlier 1.45 tonnes of fireworks would be used in the display.
