{"id":320299,"date":"2017-08-04T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/huge-fire-rips-through-dubai-torch-tower\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T23:54:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:54:24","slug":"huge-fire-rips-through-dubai-torch-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/huge-fire-rips-through-dubai-torch-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Fire Rips Through Dubai Torch Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A massive blaze which engulfed one of the tallest residential buildings in the United Arab Emirates has been brought under control. Dubai&#8217;s firefighters battled the huge fire for hours before snuffing out the flames at the 79-storey Dubai Torch Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighting brigades from four stations were sent to battle the flames at the Torch Tower, the fifth tallest residential building in the world<\/p>\n<p>There is no word on casualties, but Dubai\u2019s government media office announced that residents have been successfully evacuated from the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo injuries have been reported so far in the Torch Tower fire incident,\u201d\u00a0Dubai&#8217;s media office said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Dubai Civil Defence:Fire at the Torch Tower has been brought under control. Cooling operations are underway. No inures have been reported. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4hHMnaRJ7T\">pic.twitter.com\/4hHMnaRJ7T<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DXBMediaOffice\/status\/893255602046107650\">August 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fire is believed to have started on the ninth floor before ascending towards the top stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s [a] big fire [that] started on [the] 9th floor. Civil defence and police [are on] the scene now to control the fire,\u201d\u00a0a Dubai police spokesperson told Gulf News.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second time in two years the Torch Tower has been engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>In a February 2015 incident, seven people suffered smoke inhalation but the fire was quickly brought under control.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ahoF30_Nlo\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/huge-fire-rips-through-dubai-torch-tower\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive blaze which engulfed one of the tallest residential buildings in the United Arab Emirates has been brought under control. Dubai&#8217;s firefighters battled the huge fire for hours before snuffing out the flames at the 79-storey Dubai Torch Tower. Firefighting brigades from four stations were sent to battle the flames at the Torch Tower, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-320299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}