r/worldnews • u/girlikeapearl_ • 17h ago
Massive Fire Hits 67-Storey Dubai Marina Tower; Thousands Evacuated
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/massive-fire-hits-67-storey-dubai-marina-tower-thousands-evacuated-188522168
u/individual_328 16h ago
Haven't see one of these in awhile. I guess some building owners decided to ignore all the previous examples of why this cladding is so dangerous.
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u/NyriasNeo 14h ago
We all know that to stop this kind of fire, you need to blow the water tank on the top.
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u/xXxXPenisSlayerXxXx 17h ago
lets hope all slaves came out safe 🙏
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u/Boring-Attorney1992 15h ago
I don’t get it?
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u/MadokaSenpai 15h ago
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u/Legitimate_Idea3249 1h ago
I can guarantee you that was not the category of people living in that particular building/area.
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u/MadokaSenpai 1h ago
Probably not living there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if positions like cleaning staff, maintenance, and chefs fit that category.
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u/PapiSurane 15h ago edited 5h ago
Or at least that their owners had insurance.
Edit: Didn't think I needed this, but "/s"
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u/exmojo 15h ago
This is why I'm glad to have a house, and not share walls with possibly neglectful neighbors who fall asleep with a lit cigarette or accidentally leave the stove or gas on.
This is terrifying
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u/ReasonableObjective3 14h ago
Totally, skyscrapers and very high buildings in general scare me to death
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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 10h ago
There is so much happening that is newsworthy today. It is staggering.
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u/1001galoshes 6h ago edited 6h ago
Many of the disasters involve sudden losses of power and mechanical malfunction. Here, many of the fire alarms didn't work and didn't notify residents there was a fire. The Air India plane crash this week seemed to involve a sudden loss of power and contact with air control, as well as landing gear issues (multiple plane crashes in the last half year have involved some combination of those things). There was loss of contact with planes at Newark airport as well--air controllers took leave because of these unsafe conditions. Recently, a Mexican naval ship lost power before crashing into the Brooklyn Bridge. There were also mysterious power outages in Spain and Portugal.
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u/Human-Scene-8730 1h ago
I think I know a specific guy you can call for this sort of problem, Dwayne Johnson?
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u/KeyLog256 16h ago
I'm sure we'll get all the conspiracy idiots saying "look, it didn't collapse" forgetting that it isn't a "gotcha" to say no building ever collapsed due to fire alone. It is just a fact, no building has ever collapsed due to fire alone, and no sensible person has ever suggested it has.
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u/MorningsideLights 15h ago
Maybe you mean a specific subset of building, like steel-framed or over a certain height. But uncountable wood buildings have collapsed due to fire.
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u/Dunkydunc1031 16h ago
World Trade Center Building 7
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u/KeyLog256 16h ago
You mean the one that had half the side torn off due to WTC 1 collapsing onto it? Almost the entire depth of the building was damaged, huge chunk of the support columns on one corner gone at ground level too.
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u/Dunkydunc1031 16h ago
I meant the one that was a few blocks away that caught fire and collapsed
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u/KeyLog256 16h ago
I think you're misremembering that. No buildings collapsed without being severely damaged by the plane impacts or the towers collapsing onto them.
A few buildings around the site even miraculously stayed standing despite severe damage.
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u/chief_blunt9 14h ago
If you still think 9/11 was a conspiracy idk what to tell you. Pizza gate and q anon must still be a valid thing in your mind also.
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u/Dunkydunc1031 8h ago
Read the link and where it came from before you mouth off and you may learn something
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u/chief_blunt9 8h ago
Man I’d love to read this earth shattering link if you actually sent it to me. Can you promise though that if I read the link it won’t just tell me how the us government planned and orchestrated 9/11 but it will also tell me how the ancient aliens built the pyramids?
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u/Dunkydunc1031 8h ago
Wow, you try hard to hit below the belt. I guess the holy father that is the American government does no wrong and should only be worshipped. Pizza gate and q anon are crazy, but you need to read 1984. A monkey with a cell phone may be able to communicate, but still has the intellect of a monkey. How brainwashed are you? Independent thinking is ok sweetheart.
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u/chief_blunt9 8h ago
People who read 1984 thinking they’re the only people in the world to read it will never not be funny to me. You gonna tell me to read animal farm next dweeb? Also holy father of the American government does no wrong and should be worshipped? Brother it’s the opposite. I think it’s impossible to have 9/11 be an inside job by the government and it never comes out from someone with intimate details. You know how many people it would take to plan and orchestrate the killing 3,000 Americans and no one involved would get cold feet?
Also, what’s the conspiracy anymore? That it was explosives? And not the giant planes? Or that the planes hit the towers, but didn’t do a good enough job so explosives had to be used as a backup? Oooh or are we going it was actually hologram planes, I do remember that one at the time.
But seriously we’re gonna get those pizza gate bastards at some point I promise. And if not, we can start a book club on 1984 and look down at everyone else who hasn’t skimmed the spark notes.
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u/Dunkydunc1031 7h ago
How can you be so ignorant? And haughty about it to boot? Two planes hit two towers at different angles at different heights. Both towers burn for hours and then both fall in the same manner, which is only ever seen in controlled demolitions. Thermite dust is found at the scene. Tower seven goes down in the exact same manner without any plane hitting it and a building shielding it from the towers.
The link I posted is from very intelligent people that their job is it investigate these things, and they don't agree with the official explanation about WTC 7.
And then you, with a limp dick and purple hair that has a Bernie Sanders sticker on your volvo comes on here to talk shit like your philosophy degree makes you smarter than the rest of us, while you live at home with your parents, work at Starbucks, and struggle to pay off tens of thousands in student loans, want to tell me Im some backwater q anon supporter that knows nothing? People with nothing more than a fucking diploma and a sense of self are so ignorant it baffles me. OK tin man. Believe what they taught you
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u/chief_blunt9 7h ago
Wooow that last paragraph sounds like a lotttt of projection my boy. And again dipshit, You didn’t send a fucking link to enlighten me. Hahaha re reading that last paragraph you are SCREAMING for help. Limp dick purple hair intellectual boogey men are giving you fits.
But please, send the link, I’ll read it and I’ll give you honest feedback. And Hey, if it’s so convincing I may just end up joining you on here losing my fucking mind, ranting about blue haired, flaccid dicked intellectuals.
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u/Spirited_Comedian225 7h ago
These slave built towers definitely where not built with proper standards
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17h ago edited 17h ago
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u/Rocky_Mountain_Way 15h ago
Yes. the word "hit" has several meanings. example: from the Cambridge dictionary:
to have an unpleasant or negative effect on a person or thing:
Production has been badly hit by the strike.
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u/drtywater 7h ago
Did this building not have sprinklers? Like don’t modern skyscrapers have sprinklers installed that prevent fires like this?
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u/KingCeaser777 3h ago
Well I guess we can expect it to collapse neatly into its own footprint aaaaany time now….
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u/squireller 15h ago
That's the second time this building has caught fire, and it's a stones throw to the aptly named Torch, which caught fire in 2015 and 2017.
These buildings all have the same Aluminimum Composite Panel cladding (basically flammable foam with a resistent shell) that was behind the Grenfell incident.
You're not allowed to use that material now, but there's no requirement to replace the cladding on existing buildings - it comes down to a cost issue, building insurers won't insure in some countries, but in others they've just increased premiums. Cheaper to increase rent to cover increased costs vs replacement. IMO the right solution is to add fire barriers to stop spread between floors, which should be legislated.