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want to come back to you. definitely stay with us. i want to talk to jacqueline. she's a cnn espanol correspondent. she was on the terrace when she was evacuated. she is on the phone now from dubai. set the scene for us. tell us as we're looking now at these pictures of the flames now going -- it looks now it's almost starting to go around the entire hotel. >> hi, brianna, can you hear me? >> yes, jacqueline, i can. can you tell us what you've seen? >> yes, we were there, waiting for the fireworks spectacular that was going to take place at burj khalifa. we had heard an explosion. people around us didn't really quite know what was going on. we thought maybe people were already preparing for the firework spectacular it suddenly
mall. and then we evacuated out of the mall into the street and we're heading to our car now. >> so was this -- this was happening during the fireworks display that took place very close by? >> no, no, no. it was 9:35. so we were all having dinner. people were just having dinner. the fountain was doing its normal show every 15 minutes. the fireworks display didn't start until midnight which is another hour from now. >> it was sort of the display there at the hotel, the fountain display. give us a sense of where this is. and also before i actually ask that question, you said that people -- the staff, they were able to evacuate you very quickly? could you tell -- >> yes, they took us to direct stairways. they guided us down. everyone pretty much remained calm. at first we thought it was a small fire. then it quickly escalated. then we're like, we got to get