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Fire Engulfs Dubai's Torch Tower Skyscraper
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A huge fire has engulfed part of the Torch Tower in Dubai, forcing thousands of people to flee the 1,100ft skyscraper.
The fire reportedly started in the middle of the residential building, rapidly spreading across some 15 floors.
In several videos posted on social media websites, multiple floors of the tower were seen ablaze.
As yet, it is unclear what caused the fire.
There are no initial reports of injuries.
Torch Tower is one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.
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Nobody hurt - that seems lucky.
 
How would you even contemplate putting that out, or rescuing anyone! Guess you just need to wait and hope everyone got out.
 
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Evangelion said:
The complete lack of commercial passenger aircraft smashing into the building might be a contributing factor there...
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As will modern fire resistant coatings applied to current (or likely exceeding current) standards, unlike a certain other building I can think of that failed to have the fire proofing to the standards required when it was built 50 years ago.
 
Amp34 said:
How would you even contemplate putting that out, or rescuing anyone! Guess you just need to wait and hope everyone got out.
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Generally fire "proof" doors, stairwells with fire stops, and cross access between different routers to provide a way to get down even if one escape route is blocked, and water reservoirs for emergency use, sprinklers and booster pumps to get water up to where needed at a guess :)

They're fairly good about planning for fires and working out how to deal with them before they ever put a tall building up these days.
 
Werewolf said:
Generally fire "proof" doors, stairwells with fire stops, and cross access between different routers to provide a way to get down even if one escape route is blocked, and water reservoirs for emergency use, sprinklers and booster pumps to get water up to where needed at a guess :)

They're fairly good about planning for fires and working out how to deal with them before they ever put a tall building up these days.
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I understand all that, but if things fail, such as appears to have happened here, there cannot be any way (short of fire helicopters) of putting that out, or rescuing people in the top half of the building.
 
It's something I'd never really put much thought into, about how you would go about putting a big fire out that was half way up one of these super tall buildings.
 
Skillmister said:
It's something I'd never really put much thought into, about how you would go about putting a big fire out that was half way up one of these super tall buildings.
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They could fly some of those water carrying planes they use on Forest fires in to it. :cool:
 
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