Alarming footage showed flames climbing up the 86-storey Torch Tower
Wealthy residents of Dubai's Torch Tower
have revealed how they fled from the burning 1,100ft building in just
ten minutes thanks to its smoke free escape routes - in stark contrast
to victims of London's Grenfell Tower disaster.
Fire
'spread rapidly' through one of the world's tallest residential towers
sparking panic among terrified residents after a day when temperatures
in the city climbed to 45C (113F).
Alarming
footage showed flames climbing up the outside of the 86-storey
skyscraper, a building popular with expats in the United Arab Emirates
tourism hotspot.
Burning debris could
be seen crashing down to the ground below as tearful residents fled and
firefighters desperately tackled the blaze.
The same skyscraper was devastated by fire in 2015 and the building's flammable cladding, which was similar to that used in Grenfell Tower,
was blamed for fuelling the flames. Unlike the inferno in West London
in June, in which at least 80 died, residents of the Torch were able to
escape unharmed on both occasions.
Horrified
residents this morning described how they woke to screaming and fire
alarms after a blaze broke out on the 63rd floor. It is understood to
have spread across 40-storeys of the 676-flat building, where apartments
start at £381,000. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
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