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Title: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: endfire79 on February 20, 2015, 09:02:18 PM
A huge tower building in Dubai went up in flames tonight.   :o

A massive fire has ripped through one of the world's tallest residential buildings in Dubai
The inferno has taken hold at the 1,105ft tall Marina Torch building.
The blaze is said to have started on the 50th floor, witnesses say
The building has been evacuated and there are no reports of any casualties so far.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dubai-torch-tower-fire-recap-5202108 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dubai-torch-tower-fire-recap-5202108)



The fire appears to have been put out.
Title: Re: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: Gusington on February 20, 2015, 09:48:17 PM
How'd they put it out?
Title: Re: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: jomni on February 21, 2015, 11:58:44 PM
Marina Torch lives up to its name.  :buck2:
Title: Re: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: MikeGER on February 22, 2015, 05:18:00 AM
looks like Allah punish those who abuse his Islam and finace terrorist and war bands in the region and abroad around the globe ;)

i hope all those 'Towers of Babel's worship undeserved oil-mammon in the Gulf region will all fall once like the mythological pertaining to the Old Testament one did  :knuppel2:   
...'n it doesnt hurt with help of a little boy or a fat man >:D



Title: Re: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: endfire79 on February 22, 2015, 07:35:12 AM
Mike a little decency, real people lived in that building.  I shared it as you don't see too many towering infernos, and I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone.
Title: Re: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: endfire79 on February 22, 2015, 07:52:08 AM
Surprisingly nobody dead

http://wbay.com/2015/02/21/dubai-skyscraper-catches-fire-no-one-killed-in-blaze/  (http://wbay.com/2015/02/21/dubai-skyscraper-catches-fire-no-one-killed-in-blaze/)
Title: Re: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 22, 2015, 08:02:46 AM
Italian lighting.   ::)
Title: Re: Dubai Torch Tower fire
Post by: Gusington on February 22, 2015, 04:51:14 PM
That's amazing no one has died. And well said Endfire.