Fireput out at Sulafa Tower in Dubai Marina

T-Mag Wednesday 20/July/2016 16:56 PM
By: Times News Service
Fireput out at Sulafa Tower in Dubai Marina

Dubai: Firefighters put out a fire that broke out at a 75-storey residential tower in Dubai on Wednesday, the fifth blaze in a skyscraper in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates in recent years.
The fire was completely put out three hours after it started with no injuries reported, the Dubai Media Office said.
Burning debris floated toward the ground and firefighters approached the site with sirens blaring. In March, a fire broke out at a residential tower in the nearby Emirate of Ajman. On New Year's Eve, a blaze hit a landmark downtown hotel in Dubai; in February last year, fire broke out at a 79-storey residential tower in Dubai, and in November 2012, a 34-storey Dubai residential building was partially gutted.
In some of those cases, experts said the flames may have been encouraged to spread by flammable exterior cladding, used for decoration or insulation. The UAE revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 metres (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant, but older buildings are exempt.