Huge fire at Dubai skyscraper

Carpet could burn. If the stairwells were carpeted it could travel from floor to floor that way.

I also have no idea if fire suppression code over there is the same as it is over here.

 

They said this building had a fire start on the 20th floor, looked like a 60-story roman candle within 20-30 minutes, and only 17 people were killed/injured?
How is that even possible? Was the place uninhabited?

 

I would assume it has to do with the building being so modern and having high-tech fire doors/sprinkler systems that kept the fire mostly contained to the exterior. A resident witness on CNN said the building only opened about 6 years ago.

 

Maybe it was Buffet Night.

 

They'll need something in all those stadiums they're building for the World Cup in Qatar, come to think of it ...

 

The accelerant used would be the flammable building materials used on the cheap due to non-existent building codes over there.

 

Looks like AQB was right.

Emirates’ skyscrapers are killers in waiting, says fire expert

 

I suspect one reason nobody reportedly died was because the upper floors had apartments, not hotel rooms. Easier to clear out four apartments on a floor than 40 hotel rooms.

 

Not surprising. Takes an awful lot of corners being cut to transform a place in less than two decades from this:


to this:



I'd sure hate to be trying to sell a Dubai high rise condo today.

 

Yet another case of "government is bad and stupid, it gets in the way of making money and slows things down with unreasonable regulations and inspections" - until something goes wrong.