Dubai High Rise Fire 12-31-15 20+ Stories of a 63 Story Hotel

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63 story luxury hotel. "Address Hotel" is near The Downtown Mall area

"It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which covered at least 20 stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper, AP reports.

Burning debris rained down from the building as firetrucks raced to the scene.

No injuries have yet been reported."

FOXNEWS Live Has/had Chris Brown Of Special Hazards Providence RI discussing things ...

https://www.rt.com/news/327592-dubai...-fire-address/

Edited December 31, 2015 by BFD389RET

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That's crazy. All that oil money being used to design and build ridiculously large buildings quickly and cheaply, and using poorly trained, low paid labor. And every one has to be bigger and better then the next no matter what. And no life safety codes or standards for high rise buildings.

They had another incident like this, one of many, last February. The fire departments answer to these incidents? Fire Safety Systems? Codes? Sprinklers that work? No. Jet packs. Seriously. Read the article:

http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/13/dubai-fight-fires-worlds-tallest-skyscrapers-jetpacks-design/

And this type of incident today is the result.

[mikeinet 37]

i'm confused how news articles are saying that the fire is not spreading inside the building... article on NBCNews made it seem like only the fire floor has interior fire...

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seems they use styrofoam with stucco for the exterior, after all Its the freaking desert and any sort of Insulation has to "help" that being said ..........

Here We go, Someone happily went looking and This article covers The next couple questions somewhat ....

http://www.thenational.ae/business/property/most-dubai-towers-built-before-2012-have-non-fire-rated-exterior-panels

Edited January 4, 2016 by BFD389RET

[kinkchaser 352]

Wasn't there a similar fire in Atlantic City where the fire spread up the exterior of a hotel for 20 floors or so, Flame supporting exterior materials and panels were the cause.

I fear this material on building exteriors maybe more prevalent then we would like.