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The dubai area, i've been there several times and thursday night 1:00 in the morning which is when this fire broke out, that's a busy area. a lot of people are out enjoying the warm weather. again, no one injured, but pretty dramatic footage nonetheless. dubai fire officials say the torch tower caught fire around 1:00 this morning. i took about two hours to get it under control. they say that more than 40 floors were engulfed in flames, but everyone inside was able to escape safely within minutes saying -- this is the second time in two years at the torch tower house caught fire, another one b...

The thing is these buildings have been built very fast and using construction techniques that allow them to go up fast and there was the use of specific cladding that is highly combustible. it's a combustible thermoplastic core sandwiched between two sheets of aluminum. this is highly combustible and i think we see an example there and we saw two previous examples in dubai when the torch tower burned down and earlier the time wheel tower, one of the towers that used the same cladding. >> maurice, this sandwich that you're talking about that has plastic in the middle and aluminum, a metal on th...

At the same time, cultures mixing together, you're going to end up having, you know, you know, obviously a disaster here and there. and in terms of fire? i'm not a hundred percent sure that the fire departments are ready, are even equipped enough to handle such fires. i mean, i was a witness and i was a resident of the torch tower at the time in the dubai marina. and unfortunately, you would see the fire men on their phones taking videos. i mean, i just -- you know, maybe it's just a one off. you can't blame the entire squad on the action of a guy. but personally in terms of fire safety, i jus...

Residents are actually just worried about -- because we've been hearing several large, very loud explosions from the building. and personally we're thinking maybe the kitchen gas tanks or something and a lot of the residents were worried can this tower fall down and can it hit the old town and can it reach us? the lucky thing is our tower, the m.r. towers are built solid concrete. but this is just another tower built similar of the tower last year. same story, same resolution. there we go. >> we have an image for you, this is a picture you took a short while ago. and it shows the address hotel...