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Dubai's Torch Tower 2 Saturday, August 5, 2017 Blaze rips through Dubai’sDubai scene within Torch four minutes of announced tougher Towerrules to islands. anicked residents fled the blaze erupting at 12:45 am minimise fire risks after a series Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom one of the tallest towers (2045 GMT Thursday). of tower blazes in the emirate Holding is building a tower inP glitzy Dubai early yesterday They said residents were mostly due to flammable in Jeddah that is planned to after a fire ripped through it, immediately evacuated and the material used in cladding, a surpass the Burj Khalifa, rising the second blaze to hit the fire put out by 2:58 am without covering or coating used on the more than a kilometre. skyscraper in as many years. any casualties. side of the buildings. Dubai first became a magnet Authorities said no casualties Dubai’s civil defence In November 2015, fire for property investments were reported from the blaze authority said it started on the engulfed three residential when it opened the sector to which erupted in the middle 65th floor of the luxury tower blocks in central Dubai and foreigners in 2002, standing to upper floors of The Torch, block. led to services on a metro line out in a region that largely once the tallest residential In the morning, an AFP being suspended, although no confines freehold ownership to development in the world. correspondent saw torched one was hurt. citizens. The 337-metre (1,105-foot) vehicles in the block’s car park On New Year’s Eve that year, The value of property surged tower was the scene of a 2015 and extensive fire damage to 16 people were injured when at breakneck speed until the inferno that caused extensive the middle and upper storeys a fire broke out in a luxury global financial crisis hit the damage to its luxury flats and of the left side of the building. hotel, hours before a massive debt-laden emirate in 2009, triggered an evacuation of “We thank God that there fireworks display nearby. sending prices into free-fall. nearby blocks in the seafront were no casualties, that because Dubai has established a A recovery led by tourism, Marina neighbourhood. of the efforts of all teams on reputation for building dozens trade and transportation A close-up view of the damage following a fire that ripped Dubai authorities said the ground... the residents were of futuristic skyscrapers, which pushed prices up again through “The Torch”, one of the tallest towers in Dubai firefighters arrived at the evacuated from this building to have transformed its skyline. between 2012 and 2014. another one and there were The city state boasts the But Dubai’s real estate no injuries,” Dubai police world’s tallest building, Burj sector again slowed down, with commander Major General al-Khalifa, which stands 828 residential prices dropping Abdullah Khalifa al-Marri metres (2,700 feet) tall, as well around 12 percent in 2015 said. as iconic palm tree-shaped, before slowly starting to climb In January, Dubai man-made luxury residential in 2016. (AFP) Firefighters battled a blaze at the 79-storey Marina Torch Tower in the United Arab Emirates on Friday – the second fire at the Dubai tower and the seventh UAE skyscraper fire in five years Dubai Sharjah Aluminium composite panels (ACPs) IRAN Outer wall Insulation Abu UAE Ventilated Dhabi cavity OMAN ACP cladding SAUDI ARABIA Twin aluminium sheets with polyurethane YEMEN core Jan 2012 – Al Baker Tower: Blaze displaces 125 families in Sharjah. Flammable ACPs are blamed for spreading fire Dec 2015 – The Address: WIN 3 CARS AND 300 GOLD COINS! Apr – Al Tayer Tower: Fire at ACP fire ravages 63-storey, 302-metre Dubai residential building Celebrate a century with BFC! Make any transaction with BFC between 28th May 2017 40-storey tower in Sharjah displaces and 4th September 2017 and get a chance to win amazing monthly prizes. hundreds of families. ACPs blamed (below). 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