Huge fire breaks out at 'Torch Tower' residential building in Dubai

[Brink]

[QUOTE]A huge fire has broken out at Dubai's Torch Tower - one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Footage posted on social media showed flames spreading up the Torch Tower, and burning debris falling down.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40822269[/url]

EDIT: 40 minute video of fire [url]https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BdGYWbvaqgxX[/url]

[TheTalon]

How do you even fight a fire that high up

[Omilinon 👻]

Well, that's kinda ironic.

[SaberVS7]

[QUOTE=Omilinon;52537306]Well, that's kinda ironic.[/QUOTE]

Actually it's not. This has happened [I]before[/I].

[laserpanda]

[QUOTE=certified;52537331]Actually it's not. This has happened [I]before[/I].[/QUOTE]

It's poorly worded. The previous fire was at the nearby Address Hotel.

edit: never mind, this one also caught fire a few years ago.

... and the article about that fire mentions another Dubai skyscraper that caught fire in 2012. What the fuck is going on over there.

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=laserpanda;52537478]... and the article about that fire mentions another Dubai skyscraper that caught fire in 2012. What the fuck is going on over there.[/QUOTE]

poorly constructed and badly designed buildings raised by slave labour in a notoriously corrupt country with unenforced regulations in a city that was built in a rushed and haphazard manner are being poorly maintained and the inspectors are typically bribed while the government turns a blind eye to problems

[Provost]

[QUOTE]one of the tallest [B]residential[/B] buildings in the world[/QUOTE]

Jesus fucking Christ.

[Corn]

[QUOTE=TheTalon;52537298]How do you even fight a fire that high up[/QUOTE]

You use matches or a lighter

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;52537727]You use matches or a lighter[/QUOTE]

the ol' fight fire with fire tactic

[Paul-Simon]

[QUOTE=Omilinon;52537306]Well, that's kinda ironic.[/QUOTE]

It's appropriate, rather.
It would be ironic if it was named the "Fireproof Tower"