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Monday, March 28, 2016

Massive Fire in the UAE! Terror as towering inferno rips through skyscraper forcing hundreds of residents to flee as chunks of burning metal fall to the ground

Terrifying: A towering inferno has ripped through a residential skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates - the third such incident in a year
Terrifying: A towering inferno has ripped through a residential skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates - the third such incident in a year




  Hundreds of people were forced to flee when a towering inferno ripped through a residential skyscraper in the UAE
    Huge blaze, which broke out in the emirate of Ajman late on Monday, is the third such incident in a little over a year
    Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of building in city north of Dubai


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    But reports in the UAE say there were no casualties and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in al-Sawan
Hundreds of people were forced to flee as chunks of burning metal fell to the ground when a blaze broke out in the emirate of Ajman
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Hundreds of people were forced to flee as chunks of burning metal fell to the ground when a blaze broke out in the emirate of Ajman
A towering inferno has ripped through a residential skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates - the third such incident in just over a year.
Hundreds of people were forced to flee as chunks of burning metal fell to the ground when a blaze broke out in the emirate of Ajman late on Monday. 
Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of the building but reports in the UAE say there were no casualties, and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in al-Sawan.



Before the fire: The Emirati interior minister, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, rushed to Ajman to help coordinate the response to the blaze at the Ajman One complex, Ajman police said

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Before the fire: The Emirati interior minister, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, rushed to Ajman to help coordinate the response to the blaze at the Ajman One complex, Ajman police said
Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of the building but reports in the UAE say there were no casualties, and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in al-SawanFire rips through the residential tower
Lucky escape: Images shared on social media showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of the building but reports in the UAE say there were no casualties, and that everyone was evacuated from the tower in al-Sawan

Fire struck in the Ajman One complex, a development of 12 towers with some 3,000 apartments, and officers sealed off a major road nearby
Fire struck in the Ajman One complex, a development of 12 towers with some 3,000 apartments, and officers sealed off a major road nearby
The Emirati interior minister, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, rushed to Ajman to help coordinate the response to the blaze, Ajman police said.
Fire struck in the Ajman One complex, a development of 12 towers with some 3,000 apartments, and officers sealed off a major road near the tower.
Hundreds of evacuated residents and onlookers crowded nearby to watch the building go up in flames, while efforts to extinguish the blaze continued late into the night.
Ajman is home to many commuters who work in the Gulf commercial hub of Dubai, further to the south. Like Dubai, it is one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE federation.
The blaze comes less than three months after a massive fire raced up the exterior of the 63-story The Address Downtown Dubai, one of Dubai's most prominent hotels. It is situated next to Dubai's biggest mall and the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper.   
Similar fires have struck other high-rises built since the turn of this century in Dubai and Sharjah, which sits between Dubai and Ajman.


Ajman is home to many commuters who work in the Gulf commercial hub of Dubai, further to the south. Like Dubai, it is one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE federation
Ajman is home to many commuters who work in the Gulf commercial hub of Dubai, further to the south. Like Dubai, it is one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE federation

The blaze (pictured) comes less than three months after a massive fire raced up the exterior of the 63-story The Address Downtown Dubai, one of Dubai's most prominent hotels. It is situated next to Dubai's biggest mall and the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper
The blaze (pictured) comes less than three months after a massive fire raced up the exterior of the 63-story The Address Downtown Dubai, one of Dubai's most prominent hotels. It is situated next to Dubai's biggest mall and the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper
Similar fires have struck other high-rises built since the turn of this century in Dubai and Sharjah, which sits between Dubai and AjmanThe latest fire is pictured
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Similar fires have struck other high-rises built since the turn of this century in Dubai and Sharjah, which sits between Dubai and Ajman
Falling debris: Building and safety experts have attributed the spate of fires to a material commonly used to cover the buildings known as aluminum composite panel cladding. Debris is pictured falling from the high-rise building in Ajman
Falling debris: Building and safety experts have attributed the spate of fires to a material commonly used to cover the buildings known as aluminum composite panel cladding. Debris is pictured falling from the high-rise building in Ajman
Some panels used in buildings in the Emirates contain a flammable core that can burn rapidly one ignited, allowing fires to spread quickly on buildings covered with the panels. It was not immediately clear if the skyscraper in the Ajman fire had that type of cladding
Some panels used in buildings in the Emirates contain a flammable core that can burn rapidly one ignited, allowing fires to spread quickly on buildings covered with the panels. It was not immediately clear if the skyscraper in the Ajman fire had that type of cladding
A YouTube video (pictured) showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of the building but reports say there were no casualties
A YouTube video (pictured) showed bright yellow flames spreading up the side of the building but reports say there were no casualties
Building and safety experts have attributed the spate of fires to a material commonly used to cover the buildings known as aluminum composite panel cladding. 
Some panels used in buildings in the Emirates contain a flammable core that can burn rapidly one ignited, allowing fires to spread quickly on buildings covered top to bottom with the panels without sufficient fire breaks along the way.
It was not immediately clear if the skyscraper in the Ajman fire had that type of cladding, but images posted on social media appeared to show the fire burning in a similar fashion.

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