In Dubai illuminates one of the highest skyscrapers in the world
MOSCOW, 4 Aug — RIA Novosti. One of the highest towers in the world, the 79-storey Torch skyscraper burns in Dubai, according to a UAE newspaper Gulfnews.
A police spokesman told the newspaper that the fire started on the ninth floor and spread to several levels above. On video footage of eyewitnesses posted in social networks, is seen as blazes top of the skyscraper, also known as “Dubai’s torch”, disperse thick clouds of smoke.
The #Torch tower in #Dubai, the fifth-largest residential building in the world, is engulfed in flames pic.twitter.com/PrztJZYZMH
— Benjamin Alvarez (@BenjAlvarez1) 3 Aug 2017
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Previously, the skyscraper has become a victim of the great fire in 2015.
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In 2011 with the opening of a skyscraper the Torch height of 348 meters was the tallest residential tower in the world, he now holds fifth position. The Torch is situated in one of the elite areas of Dubai Marina, home to numerous communities of foreigners. The fire started on the 50th floor, but because of the strong wind the flames spread through the walls more than ten floors. To extinguish, had not only the flames on the upper floors, but the rubble and melted glass, which dripped from the burning skyscraper.
Previously a large fire occurred in Dubai for a few hours before the new 2016 five-star 63-storey Address hotel Hotel. In 2012, a large part of the 34-storey residential tower Tamweel Tower in Jumeirah Lake Towers burned in a fire resulting from not extinguished cigarette.