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With the l.e.d. lights. there on the right-hand side of your screen, you see the smoke billowing up from the address hotel, at least the facade that is facing the burj al khalifa. as you can see in the foreground of the picture, those area, that boulevard, hamid boulevard, i believe, includes residential buildings, residential apartment complexes. it includes luxury shopping stores as well as popular restaurants and cafes. now, to the left of that, you can also see some residential high rise buildings and that is where we've been speaking to at least one of our eyewitnesses. so a very dramatic...

Group of firefighters on twitter. so i've been sharing photos of the area and some of their fire protection systems. we this have cabinet systems just like here in the united states. they have standpipe just like here in the states. but the ability to move a handline and fight a fire in these buildings is something that needs to be trained on and drilled on intensely. and the amount of training and experience that we have in places like boston, new york, miami, indianapolis and cities like that where they have an understanding of how fast and how catastrophic these fires can be, those drills h...

Too turbulent and then it could have made it worse. because people know that the more air you cause to a fire the more it will increase. >> bobby halton, if you're still with us, you've been talking about how this is going to be a situation that is going to be with the officials here for the next several days. talk to us as we go forward what we can expect from the united arab emirates civil defense forces the emergency response teams, particularly the firefighters, where does the investigation begin, how do you begin to determine what caused this fire? what are you looking for as you begin to...

The world's tallest building, then to my right i see a hotel, the iconic hotel of dubai in flames. not as pronounced as it was an hour ago, but it's continuing and the smoke, you can smell it, you can feel it. it is in our clothes, it's black. it's really surreal and bizarre. >> amir, we certainly appreciate your account. stay with us. i want to bring in bobby halton, retired fire chief and editor of "fire" magazine. bobby, if i can, you're seeing there the united arab emirates going ahead with its pyrotechnic display at the world's tallest building within the vicinity of the building that is ...

the fire looks as though it's nearly reaching those top floors. as you mentioned, we are about two hours away, we just crossed 10:00 p.m. local time in dubai, where every year on new year's eve there is a massive fireworks display. one of the concerns here that the firefighters, first responders are already seeing is that large crowds were gathered in this area to watch those fireworks display. the tallest building in the world, that's where many of these fireworks are actually shot from. that's what people were gathering to watch. so the concern now as the fire is completely out of ...