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Days. in the coming days, what remains your biggest concern as a firefighter, a fire chief and what is your biggest threat in terms of once again seeing this situation out of control? bobby? all right. we may have lost bobby on the phone with us. >> ayman, i'm back. can you hear me now? >> yes, i'm with you. >> just a quick correction. that's not an ordinary firefighter you're talking to. that's chief vincent done, probably one of the preeminent authorities in fire fighting. >> right. 40 years of experience. i certainly did not mean -- no, i certainly did not mean any disrespect to him whatsoe...

Fire chief? would you say that their fire suppressant technology was as advanced as anywhere in the world? did you see any faults when you toured those facilities or did you see them to be as comparable to anything we have elsewhere? >> they're comparable to anything else you have in the modern industrialized world. i've conducted training over there for several years with the penro corporation. and we've done hands-on training in bahrain and we've been in dubai and abu dhabi. these buildings are built with modern-day fire suppression systems. what we're interested in and what we have here in ...

Realized there was a fire not from an alarm, not from fire sprinklers but, from for example a fire in the neighboring room and finding a fair amount of panic going down the stairs. one family saying they were coming down from the 15th floor and people were climbing over each other to try and get out. many saying from their eye witness points of view, the fire is still burning. now, plainly, you're going to get different accounts from different people at different times. it may be the dubai authorities are right to say that they believe they have this out of control, but clearly there are mixed...

What the tactic was be. would you approach a fire like this from above with helicopter drops? would you approach with manpower floor to floor all the way to the very top. >> no, with the clotting fire, the first that was first visible, you have streams that would be used from the outside. however, you cannot -- you have a limited supply of water. you have to -- the first priority for water ply is for the sprinkler system inside. the sprinkler system is the key to this fire. if the sprinkler is still working, the interior fire will not grow. but if the sprinkler has run out of water or is defec...

To do exactly what the chief said. we have to go room by room, inch by inch and look for potential victims. look for potential extension. there's so many ways that a fire can stay hidden within one of these buildings whether between the floors or whether it's in the walls, that, as the chief said, in america this fire is nowhere near contained. >> right. >> we would not dare say that at this point because we know that we are going to be going floor by floor, room by room, wall by wall trying to find any extension, any hidden fire and any potential victims. >> bobby, i want you to stay with me....