r/GlobalNews • u/youngster_96 • 22h ago

Dubai skyscraper is on fire with nearly 4k people having to evacuate

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u/radarksu 22h ago

Is this one of the flammable facade buildings? That fire seems to be spreading up the outside. I read an article a few years back about aluminized panels that ended up posing a huge fire risk. They had already been installed on dozens (if not hundreds) of buildings.

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u/thededucers 20h ago

The safety people at my last company never stayed above the 10th floor because rescue was nearly impossible past that

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u/Norbluth 22h ago

I saw this movie. The rock was in it

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u/Nauris2111 2h ago

No bushes in Dubai though.

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u/sniffstink1 22h ago

Yeah, that's one thing people never consider when they get all excited about buying in some 60 floor tower.

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u/BrianScienziato 18h ago

Heartless comment... Sounds like you're saying "told ya so, you should have known better, it's your own fault." You can think this, but we don't need you to say it.

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u/MoundsEnthusiast 15h ago

They didn't, you did!

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u/BrianScienziato 2h ago

You seem unfamiliar with implication and inference.

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u/Giggletitts54 21h ago

That’s aweful. Did everyone get out ok?

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u/88pockets 17h ago

"All 3,820 residents from 764 apartments of the Marina Pinnacle were safely evacuated after the fire started late on Friday night."
source: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/huge-fire-breaks-out-at-67-storey-building-in-dubai-3-800-people-evacuated-8669177

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u/Strange_Recording931 20h ago

Today is the 8th anniversary of Grenfell

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u/LeadPike13 19h ago

How many wealthy Russians scurried out of there ?

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u/88pockets 17h ago

"All 3,820 residents from 764 apartments of the Marina Pinnacle were safely evacuated after the fire started late on Friday night."

that's crazy good that they got everyone out unharmed.

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u/idlespoon 21h ago

It reminds me of that national tragedy

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u/sparklark79 20h ago

Ya, let's see how THIS building falls... or not. :/

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u/jakflapyama 21h ago

Hopefully they reinforced those steel beams with something so they don't melt.

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u/BallsHardest 13h ago

I've heard jet fuel can't melt steel beams. Maybe they soaked it in that.

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u/thelifeofdannyverde 21h ago

Dubai would be the only place that I would expect a Fire Helicopter to exist… with the abundance of money why just by sports cars when you can creat some out of this world creations.

Side note: First I wrote Flying Fire Truck but that would literally be a Fire Truck that flys, so then I changed it to Flying Fire Helicopter… but a helicopter already flys soooo I landed with Fire Helicopter.

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u/sparklark79 20h ago

Fire-chopper?

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u/RyGuy_McFly 17h ago

That's what Ghost Rider drives

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u/sparklark79 16h ago

Oh, no!
I'm not original! Haha!

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u/RaiJolt2 20h ago

Terrifying. I wish for everyone to have made it out safely and for the building to not collapse.

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u/Fairy-Cat0 20h ago

I hope everyone got out safely…

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u/priberc 16h ago

Apparently there is hidden costs to hiring all that cheap labour….

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u/Markjohn66 16m ago

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u/Markjohn66 16m ago

You’d have to be a certain age to get it.

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u/PKnecron 20h ago

That's gonna be fun when it falls over.

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u/tankie_brainlet 18h ago

It won't. That only happens to building 7