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Building. >> you mentioned that in your expertise, youd want to see a three or four block area enclose ed. if this were in your jurisdiction and you were trying to battle this blaze contain the situation, what would you want to see happen there? you want everybody out of the building just like we did on 9/11 with the world trade center. everybody and anything you can get away from the building we never diplomated the building to collapse or implode. the problem is with once the sbe interior heat...

Right now of course until we do a much thorough investigation. >> uh-huh. so how might they go about trying to investigate the source of this fire and the repidty of its spread? >> so this is really important to study exactly not so much even how the fire started but what gave it the ferocity we saw here this afternoon. its very possible since this fire apparently spread vertically up the outside of the building as opposed to the inside points directly to what they used as an exterior finish on ...

Did you hear anything at about the same time that you were feeling that heat? >> no, because this is such a big deal, there are some public viewings on the street. they closed off all the main the streets around the surrounding areas. we had reservations at a restaurant months in advance. . we were sut iing out on a terra and thats basically it. in a building attached to the address. so we had to -- luckily, we were one floor up from ground level. e we could get out. we did kind of walk out of o...

International dj. one of the big selling points of coming here tonight and one of the reasons i flew in from england is because we were promised amazing views of the fireworks from the burj khalifa and all the way to the pond. and i would say a good hour before the fireworks were meant to go off, there was a bit of chaos and panic here. some people started noticing that one of the buildings that you can seer clear from here at the course up in flames. and what looked like bits of the building ju...

Were showing images from recorded earlier where it looks like the fire was in the beginning stages. were unable to get the live view, so can you describe what youre seeing? when we hear fushls say 90% contained, from your vantage point are you seeing a diminishing of flames? >> im seeing diminishing of flames. flames, you couldnt see along the side of the building on the exterior structure. its probably a good chance it would have caught fire.

Fireworks. they move on to an iconic building and down the beach. this is a significant display with upwards of a million people watching. youre right to point out that people here, as they are in other parts of the world, organized when it comes to evacuating buildings, understanding what needs to be done. there were four teams on the ground. the building beginning to smolder. concerns about the integrity of the infrastructure there. some reports there have been explosions after the fire took o...

Now im actually going to go to debbi instead. so debbi, tell me what youre seeing. i understand you have been living in dubai for three years now. >> at the moment im inside the burj khalifa complex where a thousand people or so waiting the massive fireworks display at the moment. and as i see now the fire not as big. as before. but still the fire is on that dubai.g at the address downtown i can see clearly the heavy, thick smoke coming out from the building. and now people what i see right besi...

Point in the last six minutes or so i have been talking to josh? >> yes, you can actually see the water from the fire trucks, as you can see to the right side of the building, which is closer to the boulevard. but nothing over towards the dubai mall side, which is to the left. so as you can see, its still fairly engulfed. it has moved from the balconys interior to the individual apartments. i dont know where the split is between the hotel and the apartment side, but its still fairly engulfed at ...

This evening as a result of what has happened. but authorities say they do now have this under control. >> so the reporting is extraordinary that officials feel very confident of 90% contained. youre reminding us for those just now joining us the address hotel is on fire in downtown dubai. and this is just across the lake from the burj khalifa, which is that extraordinary building where everyone remembers seeing the fireworks display from the sides of the building. you can recall this over years...

Of the fire. while we were watching the fireworks show, we heard a really loud explosion and you started seeing the side of this building on fire. everybody who was standing there next to us was surprised. and he was just watching. he department know whether to watch the fireworks or the building that was on fire on the hotel. so he was impressed with what was going on. he was surprised that the authorities decided to have this fireworks show. especially because one of the buildings was on fire ...