A blaze erupted Thursday at a five-star hotel tower in Dubai, near where a major fireworks display was set to go off at midnight lighting up the night sky as flames licked nearly the entire height of the skyscraper.
The fire started 10pm local time in a 63-story mixed hotel-residential tower called the Address, Downtown Dubai which is across a small lake from Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.
Government officials said the blaze started on the 20th floor, on the outside of the tower.
About 14 minor injuries, one moderate injury and a heart attack “due [to] over-crowding and smoke at the fire site,”was recorded, but officials indicated there were no serious injuries.
“There are no injuries, thank God … of course, it will not affect the celebration,” Major General Rashed al-Matrushi, general director of the Dubai Civil Defence, told a live newscast.
