Flames engulfed the hotel while nearby, tens of thousands had gathered for the massive fireworks display. All guests of the hotel were relocated.
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Mackenzie Porter, originally from Medicine Hat but now lives in Nashville, was with her family shopping in a mall connected to the hotel just hours before the fire broke out.
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“One hour, then that’s it, I’m dead”, he said.
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As of last night the cause was unknown.
The government tweeted that the fire erupted on the 20th floor and affected only the outer facade of the building.
Eyewitness Kenneth Flynn told Sky News: “My partner noticed something falling from the building”. The heat was so intense outside.
He added: “I basically just strapped her to my back and took her down the stairs”.
“There was no fire alarm”. It came after a series of fires striking the towers that give this megacity its futuristic skyline.
He said: “It was basically absolute pandemonium”.
“I’ve never experienced anything like it. It was surreal”.
A number of guests told the Washington Post, however, that the evacuation was well organised.
Mr Villar said: “It was lucky for us we were only on the 15th floor, not the 60th, because I might have been struggling by the end of that”.
Earlier today, the Civil Defence team was is in the process of cooling down The Address Downtown Dubai hotel that caught fire last night. It [the fire] just shot up through the entire hotel. I thought: “‘This is a film'”.
BBC correspondent Nadia Huraimi watched the blaze.
Flames whip through the Address Downtown Dubai hotel in the United Arab Emirates, Dec. 31, 2015.
“I also knew that it was fully booked five years in advance”.
“It was very nerve-wracking as the whole street around it had been pedestrianised in preparation for the fireworks at midnight”.
A March report in the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National says although it is mandatory for new buildings in Dubai to install safety features such as exterior sprinklers, majority of the city’s 250 high-rise buildings have thermo-plastic core as cladding material which is combustible.
In the Philippines, a lit firecracker started a slum inferno which quickly spread, said fire bureau spokesman Renato Marcial.
“It was the only way of getting her out of the building, unfortunately”.
Firefighters worked to snuff out the fire, which raged as the New Year’s event lit up the nearby Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper.
Dubai’s economy depends heavily on tourism, and New Year is one of the busiest seasons, drawing people from around the world to watch the fireworks at the world’s tallest tower, as well as the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab and over a man-made palm-shaped island.
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Organizers had installed 400,000 LED lights on the Burj Khalifa and used some 1.6 tons of fireworks for the seven-minute extravaganza.
