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"Torch" Building In Dubia Burning, Major Damage Reported (online)
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| RACookPE1978
Posted on 02/20/2015 4:52:22 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
One of the world's tallest skyscrapers is burning now in Dubai, not an area known for terror attacks to date.
Extensive damage to the sides, exterior and upper floors.
No reported cause yet. Evacuated, but clearly, nobody if additional casualties and victims are trapped on higher floors.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dubai; dubaifire; uae
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May you live in interesting times. An ancient Chinese curse.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Hell of a fire! Was this done by Snackbars?
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posted on
02/20/2015 4:55:11 PM PST
by
MeatshieldActual
(Texan Independence, now and forever!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
02/20/2015 4:55:12 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
02/20/2015 4:55:35 PM PST
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Too bad Brian Williams has been suspended, otherwise, we could get a first hand account of what happened.
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posted on
02/20/2015 4:57:33 PM PST
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:00:47 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: CaptainK
From that link:
“A huge fire engulfed the Torch tower in Dubai on Friday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people in the Dubai Marina. According to local reports , the fire started on the 50th floor of the apartment block and can be seen in this video extending up one side of the building. At 79 storeys high, it is one of the world’s tallest residential buildings. Credit: Instagram/waktaa “
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:01:22 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
“One resident told the paper that the alarm had stirred many people from their sleep after it went off at 2.05am.
“There have been three fire alarms every week recently and all were false,” they said. “This time I heard it and said it must be false. But then I smelt smoke. I took my wallet and ran down along with my wife. We live on the 59th floor. “
Eyewitnesses told local media that the fire is believed to have started near the 50th floor ...”
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:04:28 PM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:06:59 PM PST
by
fso301
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
CNN is reporting the fire is now out.
To: cripplecreek
The spread if the fire indicates seriously poor design & construction standards. A decades-old building here had a serious fire a few years ago that burned all day (the tenant was a hoarder), but the flames never spread beyond the apartment where it started.
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:13:57 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:14:25 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Two separate "accidental" fires?
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:18:56 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
To: cripplecreek
“One resident told the paper that the alarm had stirred many people from their sleep after it went off at 2.05am.
“There have been three fire alarms every week recently and all were false,” they said.
Wiring/elec caught fire on the 50th floor, then slowly burned through the insulation all the way down? A short in the elevator wiring scheme?
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:22:09 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: txhurl
The video on CNN shows a huge amount of falling, flaming debris.
Apparently this is now under control / out but someone seems to have badly scr@wed up. Big time.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
May their sun rise in the east....
Holee renovation....
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:25:12 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:28:03 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Under control now, per al-Jazeera tweet.
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:32:30 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Squawk 8888
I never liked hi-rises anyway.
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:32:34 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: LibWhacker
Two separate "accidental" fires?
I noticed that in some of the videos. Sure seems like arson. Did you notice the people standing on their balconies?
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posted on
02/20/2015 5:33:11 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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