Massive fire at Dubai skyscraper coming to midnight New Year's Eve

[Jar Jar Binks]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/31/middleeast/dubai-address-hotel-fire/

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1231/757033-dubai-fire/


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CXk2jMcWcAAKWeY.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CXkok-TUEAA3_nW.jpg

Happy New Year, Dubai!

[highwhey]

Well they're off to a hot start

[Doomsday Dallas]

So....... let me get this comment out of the way

we should expect the building to do something like this right?



http://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/wtc/south-tower.gif


http://www.911research.com/wtc/evidence/videos/docs/wtc7.gif

[ISHGoat]

Dubai is absolutely on fire to start 2016!

[Trollsmasher]

the building looks pretty solid

i expect it will recover well from this massive and surely very hot fire

[DrakeTheSnake]

God damn, that building towers over the other skyscrapers in the city, and then another building towers over it. They are doing shit right.

[Meticode]

So....... let me get this comment out of the way

we should expect the building to do something like this right?



http://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/wtc/south-tower.gif


http://www.911research.com/wtc/evidence/videos/docs/wtc7.gif
Doubleful. Two 100+ story biuldings didn't' fall near/on that Dubai tower like the North and South tower did to World Trade Center 7. Plus they're designed differently and are probably decades apart in technology and construction practices of when being completed.

[HitandRun Reggie]

Only 16 minor injuries reported, thank God. Tragedies around the holidays are especially brutal. My sister's father in law died this morning, it will be years before my nieces can celebrate New Year's without that bittersweet feeling from their grandfather's passing.

[BasedTom]

http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/56451357/

:biggums: :biggums: :biggums:

[BigNBAfan]

Another L for muslims

[FillJackson]

Doubleful. Two 100+ story biuldings didn't' fall near/on that Dubai tower like the North and South tower did to World Trade Center 7. Plus they're designed differently and are probably decades apart in technology and construction practices of when being completed.
It also looks very much like it's the outside of the building that is on fire not the interior.

There was a fire like this in Russian recently, when all the balconies of a building were made of a flammable material and the building went up like a candlestick, but the building itself was concrete and there was very little interior damage, it was all on the facade.

[FillJackson]

It also looks very much like it's the outside of the building that is on fire not the interior.

There was a fire like this in Russian recently, when all the balconies of a building were made of a flammable material and the building went up like a candlestick, but the building itself was concrete and there was very little interior damage, it was all on the facade.
Yeah, it was an exterior fire. (http://www.thenational.ae/business/property/most-dubai-towers-built-before-2012-have-non-fire-rated-exterior-panels)[QUOTE]The companies that made and installed the exterior panels on The Address Downtown Dubai hotel say that most of the towers built in the city prior to 2012 used non-fire-rated exterior cladding.

The disclosure comes as investigators probe the causes of the spectacular blaze which was beamed across millions of TV screens worldwide on New Year

[FillJackson]

Here's the fire in Russia from two years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izNDNHK3_N8


Here's a thread with photos of other exterior fires
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1801571

Exterior fires tend to look more spectacular because all the fire in on the outside.

[warriorfan]

Fill Jackson = KevinNYC

[poido123]

A sign from Mohommed that he is displeased with his Muzzies.


Has to be a sign right?

[Hawker]

Fill Jackson = KevinNYC

Nice catch.

[rufuspaul]

Fill Jackson = KevinNYC


:oldlol: I thought the purpose of a sock account was so one could act out a different personality. This one couldn't be more obvious.