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Authorities struggle to douse New Year blaze at Dubai hotel

Plumes of smoke rise from the 63-storey Address Downtown Dubai hotel and residential block.

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The 37-year-old Filipino was on the 48th floor of a luxury Dubai hotel looking out at the city’s skyline that’s crowned by the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. The blaze broke out just a couple of hours before the fireworks show, which went ahead as scheduled.


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A fire runs up some 20 stories of a building in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015.

Television broadcasts and images on social media showed flames engulfing multiple floors of the hotel, which stands in an area where thousands of people were gathering to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks.

Cheering crowds of onlookers watched as bursts of color filled the sky around the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.

IRISH people who witnessed a massive skyscraper fire in Dubai have spoken of the terrifying moment they saw the blaze engulf a luxury hotel.

Within minutes of learning about the fire, many Dubai residents began to tweet, offering beds to those evacuated from the hotel, using the hashtag #NeedAnAddress.

“We came out on my balcony to look at the Burj”.

“It’s pretty scary stuff”, she said.

As we reported yesterday, Dubai’s fireworks display continued as planned, even as the blaze raged a short distance away.

“We were here at home partying in celebration of the New Year”.

Glenn Corbett, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in NY, said the rapid spread of the blaze may have been caused by a flammable exterior material used in many Dubai buildings.

Tourists stopped to take photos of the damaged hotel, while 30 police vehicles remained on-site as firecrews attempted to douse the last remaining embers. She said Dubai’s large expatriate, non-Muslim population made the city a tempting target.

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“I wheeled my mother out to the exit, but there didn’t seem to be a way to get wheelchairs down and I wasn’t going to wait to find out, so I put her on my back and she’s not too heavy”.

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