The area around the hotel in the center of Dubai where a fierce fire raged Thursday, Friday is still closed.
According to a reporter from Al-Jazeera had no one expects such a large fire at the Address Downtown Hotel could break out. ,, The building is among the most secure buildings in the area. ''
White clouds of smoke still rise from the building with 63 floors, but according to the emergency services are largely extinguished the flames. The fire fourteen people were slightly injured, police said. One person died after a heart attack.
The cause of the devastating blaze is still a mystery. Unconfirmed reports are generated on a balcony on the twentieth floor. The fire damaged only the outside of the hotel. ,, The left side is entirely washed away, '' said the reporter. The fire broke out big panic. According to a guest at the hotel the sprinklers did not. The fire alarm did not go off.
The building that came from the scaffolding in 2008, has 63 floors above ground and is approximately 300 meters. It employs nearly two hundred rooms and six hundred apartments.
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