OT: Dubai Hotel Fire
tragic, to say the least. Hopefully no one dies
Address hotel Dubai on fire. pic.twitter.com/a4v3yRNhqp
— Rami Ranger (@RamiRanger) December 31, 2015
December 31st, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^
Well that...sucks.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
How do you even begin to go about fighting that?
December 31st, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
Water based kaiju?
December 31st, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 3:42 PM ^
That's going to need a heavy dose of McQueen and a dash of Newman.
December 31st, 2015 at 11:29 PM ^
Just spent NYE at a party on the 51st floor of a building here, and at one point I was recalling Towering Inferno. Didn't hear about Dubai until later. Weird.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 2:26 PM ^
Echo the hopes that nobody was hurt. Wow. Even Hollywood couldn't fake a more awesome conflagration.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:27 PM ^
14 injuries so far... Seems pretty small for how scary the flames look.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 5:24 PM ^
If that timeline is indeed the case it's likely a material that was so flammable the sprinkler system couldn't contain it. As some people said below, it may be an exterior element.
From the videos posted, the fire walls seperating the building into sections appear to be doing their job. The fire seems to be contained to the center area and bottom 2/3 of the building. The flames aren't spreading throughout the entire structure, hopefully giving anyone affected a means to escape.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
so I hope everyone is okay as oppose to dying. Dying is bad. Living is good. Im pro living. I can tell you I'd never live in cube cages like you humanoids. Trees are safer. Don't cut them down to build your structures of death.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
I get that this is your shtick, but it comes off as insensitive and callous due to the potentially macabre outcomes
December 31st, 2015 at 3:02 PM ^
Its a flaming burning inferno of hell. Obviously if people are in there they are getting hurt. Look at that thing. When you look at a horrific car crash or catastrophic event etc. it seems silly to me to say "Gee i hope their okay". They're not okay! That building is on fucking fire! Its so obvious that everyone in the entire world minus the sociopaths hope people are okay during (insert bad thing) so why say it on a message board? Let's talk about important stuff like how long Gary might stay during his visit and what that might mean.
December 31st, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
I didn't know he was a bird.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^
It's scary how much that looks like the movie. It does not seem real, like it's fiction.
Not sure what fire code standards are in Dubai, or how much they actually adhere to them when they are building a skyscraper a day.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
http://www.gulfbusiness.com/articles/insights/dubai-marina-torch-fire-w…
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December 31st, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
Its why we will always have a need for lawyers. (Kisses my JD.)
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December 31st, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
I love Airport--"I guess I chose the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!"
December 31st, 2015 at 6:53 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 9:10 PM ^
Yeah, forgot the /s. Just making light of the fact that it is easy to confuse the two.
I've never seen Airport but I've seen Airplane numerous times. I wonder if watching Airport makes Airplane that much funnier? It stands up so well on its own anyway. (I also think I remember The Towering Inferno being on TV when I was young.)
December 31st, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
Geez, it's the real life Towering Inferno. I hate news like this on NYE...just too much bad stuff going on around the world. I really hope/pray 2016 will be better.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
I'm surprised those dudes just don't fund a giant AC dome over the city.
They already built an artificial indoor ski resort in a giant mall...Like wut.
December 31st, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^
Wonder if this building will collapse due to intense heat from fire.
December 31st, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 3:05 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 3:10 PM ^
Oh look it's the 9/11 truther from the Serial on Netflix or w/e thread.
December 31st, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 4:08 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 5:02 PM ^
please tell me more. I want to LEARN
December 31st, 2015 at 5:33 PM ^
I think something happened that day that made the whole WTC 7 thing make sense.
December 31st, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
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December 31st, 2015 at 7:26 PM ^
December 31st, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
Probably don't vaccinate their kids either.
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