Emaar is yet to disclose the extent of damage caused by the fire but officials said that the hotel will remain shut until further notice.
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Witnesses described seeing flaming debris wafting down from upper floors as occupants left, some running, Reuters reported.
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A Filipino photographer said he survived the blaze by scaling down the building on a window-washer’s cable after he became trapped on a balcony 48 stories from the ground, CNN reports. They later regained water pressure and resumed spraying the building.
The nine-ton fireworks show kicked off at midnight at Burj Khalifa, moving to the Business Bay Canal, and along the Jumeirah coastline towards the iconic Burj Al Arab, before it reached its peak in a six-minute and 20 second crescendo at The Beach by Meraas, opposite to Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR).
“There are no injuries, thank God… of course, it will not affect the celebration”, Maj.
A large fireworks display later went ahead at the worlds tallest tower in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa, in front of tens of thousands of people while plumes of smoke continued to billow from the nearby hotel fire.
The Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai was hit by a blaze on 31 December, 2015.
In February previous year, hundreds of people had to be evacuated from one of the world’s tallest residential buildings when fire broke out at the 79-storey Torch in Dubai.
In November 2012, the city’s Tamweel Tower was engulfed in a massive fire started by a cigarette thrown into a pile of trash outside the building.
Experts say most of Dubai’s approximately 250 high-rise buildings use cladding panels with thermoplastic cores, the newspaper said.
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The city passed legislation in 2012 and 2013 that imposed tougher regulations and made safety features such as exterior sprinklers mandatory in new builds, according to an article in UAE-based newspaper The National.
