Trump Tower fire: Hotel in Azerbaijani capital Baku
Source: Independent UK
Firefighters are reportedly battling a blaze at the unfinished Trump International Hotel and Tower in Azerbaijani capital Baku.
The Azadliq newspaper reported that the fire broke out on the middle floors of the 33-storey building and was spreading, with six units of firefighters at the scene.
The blaze came a day before Lewis Hamilton and other F1 drivers race the Baku city circuit in the Grand Prix.
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Quote: "It's the fire in his pants that should worry us more."....
Seriously, we hope no one is injured. Under-construction high rise fires are particularly dangerous to construction workers and firefighters.....
Hotel and flat complex was originally going to be Trump branded, but he cut ties with the project after winning the presidential election
See: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/2143858/azerbaijan-skyscraper-linked-donald-trump-catches
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A skyscraper in the capital of Azerbaijan that was once slated to become a Trump Tower caught fire on Saturday, burning for hours as road closures due to a Formula 1 race made it harder to put out the blaze, the Interfax news agency reported.
No one was hurt in the fire at the 33-floor business centre in Baku, Interfax cited Etibar Mirzoev, the deputy head of the Emergency Situations Ministry, as saying, adding that authorities were trying to work out what caused it.
The building, which is unfinished, was previously associated with US President Donald Trump who had agreed to turn it into a hotel and flat complex that would bear his name. However, the Trump Organisation ended its affiliation with the project in December 2016 after Trump’s White House win.
Baku is hosting a Formula 1 Grand Prix race on Sunday and Mirzoev was cited as saying that associated road closures meant that fire engines had struggled to reach the building, which is why it took more than three hours to put out the blaze.
Earlier this month, one man was killed and six firefighters received minor injuries in a flat fire on the 50th floor of the Trump Tower in New York.
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Associated article:
Trump has properties all over the world, and they’re now major terrorism targets
See: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2059245/trump-has-properties-all-over-world-and-theyre-now
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....as Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, put it: “If [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi] were killed, or [al-Qaeda leader] Ayman al-Zawahiri, you can try to strike the president or strike in the United States. Or you can strike a Trump hotel.”
Trump, “creates another whole range of potential targets,” said Victor Asal, a professor and co-director of the Project on Violent Conflict at the State University of New York at Albany. Attacking a US embassy or military base is challenging, “but we can attack a Trump hotel.”
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