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Dubai hotel fire: Inferno at 63-storey Address Downtown hotel near New Year's Eve fireworks display

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Dubai hotel fire: Inferno at 63-storey Address Downtown hotel near New Year's Eve fireworks display

The fire engulfs the Address Hotel in Dubai

Hundreds of Dubai’s tallest buildings are infernos waiting to happen, a leading fire safety expert says, as new video of the burnt interior of the Address Hotel is released.

Dubai buildings "infernos waiting to happen"

Hundreds of Dubai’s tallest buildings are infernos waiting to happen, a leading fire safety expert has told the Telegraph's Peter Foster and Louisa Loveluck in Dubai, after a New Year’s Eve skyscraper fire raised serious concerns about the safety of buildings throughout the Emirates.
Here are the key developments on Saturday:
• Flames engulfed the exterior of the luxury 63-storey hotel ‘The Address’ within a matter of seconds, tearing up the outside of the building “like paper” according to onlookers and creating a stampede of New Years’ revellers fleeing for their lives.
• The fire - the third major skyscraper fire in Dubai since 2012 – has raised renewed fears about the use of highly combustible materials on the exterior facades of hundreds of skyscrapers throughout the UAE.

 

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