A fire burned part of a 63 story skyscraper in Dubai earlier today, but with residents safely out of the building and only 14 minor injuries reported, authorities made a decision to let the fireworks display go on at the world’s tallest building, which is located a few hundred meters away from the skyscraper.
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Large tongues of flame shooting skywards enveloped the luxury hotel and residential block, which lies across a plaza from the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, where people were gathering for a spectacular fireworks display due to mark the start of 2016.
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At least 15 people suffered injuries in a major fire that broke out in the Address Hotel in downtown Dubai shortly before New Year celebrations began in the city yesterday evening.
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Dubai officials said reports suggest the blaze started outside the 20th floor of the building, but they maintain the fire has not spread inside the structure.
Dubai’s Media Office wrote on its official Twitter account that four teams of firefighters were working to put out the blaze. Witnesses said they heard explosions as the blaze ate away at one side of the towering structure in the heart of downtown Dubai. Debris were seen falling off the exterior. More than one million people had reached the roof of Burj Khalifa and the surrounding high-rise buildings to watch the fireworks.
A Maltese couple who were on the hotel’s 63rd floor at the time of the fire are safe.
“It was the classic thing where you would expect people to let women and children off first, but no, there was people shoving each other down the stairs and climbing over each other”, he said.
Map locates the Address Downtown Dubai building, site of a fire.
Organizers had installed 400,000 LED lights on the Burj Khalifa and used some 1.6 tons of fireworks for this year’s 7-minute extravaganza.
(AP Photo/Jon Gambrell) A picture taken on December 31, 2015 shows people watching the Address Downtown hotel burning after huge fire ripped through the luxury hotel near the world’s tallest tower, in Dubai.
Fireworks went off as the celebration started shortly after midnight while the fire continued to burn.
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Tom Stroud, from London, who is staying near to the hotel, said: “It happened so quickly”.
