Fire rips through 75-storey Torch Tower skyscraper in Dubai
Source: The Age
BREAKING
August 4 2017 - 8:58AM
Fire has ripped through the Torch Tower, a 75-storey Dubai apartment building, one of the world's tallest residential blocks, sending plumes of smoke into the air and debris falling below.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
A Dubai Police spokesperson told Gulf News the fire broke out on the ninth floor and spread to the upper four floors.
"Civil defence and police [are on] the scene now to control the fire," the spokesperson said.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/fire-rips-through-75storey-torch-tower-skyscraper-in-dubai-20170803-gxp2jb.html
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Igel
(35,385 posts)Things bunch up on their own.
Some's attention. Before the Grenfall one, this would have been minor news and overlooked or quickly forgotten. (Still minor news. Still likely quickly forgotten.)
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Full of styrofoam or something similar that likes to burn. What could go wrong eh? Same stuff that set off that London council highrise a few months ago. Stupidest building fad ever.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Good lord, were OJ Simpson and Paul Newman there?
Marthe48
(17,097 posts)n/t
LeftInTX
(25,727 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Two hours for the brilliant idea - Hey, let's put out the fire with water!
LeftInTX
(25,727 posts)All those people getting burnt was pretty over the top in 1974.
I was on the edge of my seat watching that thing.
jmowreader
(50,583 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)And you would have thought they'd have renamed after the first fire.
riversedge
(70,426 posts)sandensea
(21,711 posts)LeftInTX
(25,727 posts)Love the Towering Inferno
sandensea
(21,711 posts)Oldie but goodie.
As formulaic and predictable as it was, the Towering Inferno was well-timed, amazingly well cast and after all these years still manages to touch a nerve - at least for me (and I suspect many others).
They don't make them like that anymore.
BigmanPigman
(51,650 posts)"Man, I bet he did it for a distraction from Russia".