Fire put out at Dubai skyscraper
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Police in Dubai have reopened the streets around one of the world’s tallest residential skyscrapers after firefighters put out a blaze that erupted early Friday in the high-rise, forcing residents to evacuate in the middle of the night and sending chunks of debris plummeting below.
No major injuries had been reported. A few people were treated for smoke inhalation, according to Dubai’s Gulf News website.
Several residents said the fire broke out just after 1 a.m. at the 86-story Torch Tower — a more than 1,100-foot-tall residential building in Dubai’s popular waterfront Marina district. The same building had also caught fire just two-and-a-half years earlier.
The cause of the fire on was not immediately known but in the past, such infernos in Dubai have been linked to highly flammable building cladding.