60 storey hotel on fire in Dubai

[LeMaquis]

Not a 'Towering Inferno', not a 'Twin Towers'. Well done, the building's designers and the hotel staff.

 

I don't know how you can praise the designers. The flames covered almost one side of a 60-storey building. The fire looked like it spread up and down from the 20th floor indicating that there was flammable material used as a building material. No building should have fire spread so far and so quickly within 10 minutes.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

I don't know how you can praise the designers. The flames covered almost one side of a 60-storey building. The fire looked like it spread up and down from the 20th floor indicating that there was flammable material used as a building material. No building should have fire spread so far and so quickly within 10 minutes.

And yet its occupants survived- so the fire's spread is hardly that significant in comparison.

[999tigger]

Astonishing- and praiseworthy- that nobody died in it.

Not a 'Towering Inferno', not a 'Twin Towers'. Well done, the building's designers and the hotel staff.

 

You do realise Towering Inferno was a film, admittedly they didnt have Steve McQueen. A big difference between having 747s crashed into you and someones curtains or barbecue causing the cladding to catch fire. Questions will ofc be asked as to why the outside caught fire so quickly.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

See my post #12: same answer.

[LeMaquis]

And yet its occupants survived- so the fire's spread is hardly that significant in comparison.

 

That's alright then. The fact that the building is now a smouldering wreck when the proper use of materials would have limited the fire to one floor is insignificant.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

That's alright then. The fact that the building is now a smouldering wreck when the proper use of materials would have limited the fire to one floor is insignificant.

Largely, yes. People are worth more than buildings.

[LeMaquis]

Largely, yes. People are worth more than buildings.

 

So allow dangerous buildings to be built so that they can kill people? It was luck that no one was killed this time. Buildings where fire spreads so quickly will kill people at some point.

 

As a property solicitor do you tell your clients that the property they are hoping to move into is a firetrap but that they shouldn't worry as they may well be lucky?

[Quik]

And yet its occupants survived- so the fire's spread is hardly that significant in comparison.

 

The survival of the occupants doesn't excuse the fact that a fire on one balcony managed to set one entire side of the building alight in a few minutes. Clearly there is a design problem here.

[999tigger]

And yet its occupants survived- so the fire's spread is hardly that significant in comparison.

 

Until theres an onvestigation finding out what went wrong and what was at fault we wont know. Its good that nobody died, but it might show the buildings construction is dangerous. That would certainly eb a cause for concern for the buildings owners and people who are expected to use it in future if its a reflection of general building standards. The speed of the fires spread is worrying and your dismissal of it is bizarre.

[I1L2T3]

And yet its occupants survived- so the fire's spread is hardly that significant in comparison.

 

Sheer luck by the sounds of it. A couple of dozen injured.

 

Fire spreading several hundred feet up a building in minutes indicates that something was seriously wrong with the materials used or with the design of the building. Nothing used to construct the outside of a residential building should be so flammable.