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Residential building of 63 stories, 196 rooms and 626 service departments, the fire breaking out on the 20th floor about two and a half hours ago. there are between 14 and 16 people who have sustained minor injuries in that fire. one person described as having medium injuries and one person we believe had a heart attack as a result of smoke inhalation or the moment in time and the shock of what happened in that hotel. now we are told that 90% is now contained within the building. so 90% of the fire contained as far as authorities are concerned

That's what we'd be concerned with. the firefighters have an e enormous team, i would imagine, fighting this blaze, but the firefighters are going to have a hard time. >> perhaps in the yerlier stages before you see this kind of engulfment, we heard that the evacuations took place, what would you envision in terms of how do you clear each floor, how do you e evacuate people from 63 stories with an active fire and cant rely on elevators. using the stairway, how do you suppose they went about this now that we're hearing from officials that there are 14 reported injuries? >> for a a fire like thi...

Implosion, just like we had in the world trade center. and that's what happens. it depends on how far the fire gets into the build iing. we're looking at pictures from the outside, but if the fire is inside the building and spreads throughout the inside of the building and we're seeing another explosion on tv. that's what i would be worried about, an implosion. >> and i guess what's really extraordinary, there are a lot of things that are extraordinary about this it, but that you would have a fire of this magnitude and officials would say the show must go on. millions of dollars have been inve...

Enormous fire. there are four separate teams of firefighters working to put out this fire according to dubai's media. and as we understand it, there are no casualties at this point. now the fire at the address hotel in dubai broke out on the 20th floor from the outside of the building as far as we understand it. we also understand that the fireworks which are due to start in about 50 minutes time as far as the authorities have been saying will now go ahead. clearly, the tallest building in the world is where you'll see those fireworks. you'll see them in various other parts of dubai. as things...

Just words can't describe the feeling. at first i felt it on my back. as soon as you feel the heat, you see iphones start coming out. and it didn't take long. some people sat and watched and some people started videoing it. i grabbed my crew and we left. it went from -- it was certainly a significant fire by the time i saw it, but it went from a significant fire to that entire building is in flames and we need to get a little bit further away from it. >> that's what's so remarkable. we're hearing from eyewitness who is say within seconds the flames just traveled up that building. so that you w...