A
huge blaze tore through a luxury residential building on the Palm Jumeriah
artificial island in Dubai where some apartments change hands for MILLIONS of
pounds.
Stunned
eyewitnesses posted horrifying photos and video showing a building consumed in
flames.
It
has been claimed the fire took hold of as many as 10 floors of the Oceana
Residences on the man-made island, where a penthouse flat can go for as much as
£6 MILLION.
Emergency
crews raced to the scene in the moments after the blaze was spotted at around
10.30pm local time (6.30pm UK time).
An
Australian expat who lives in one of the other buildings in the complex told
Gulf News how he smelled burning earlier in the day but could find nothing
wrong.
He
said: "About 2 hours later at 10pm, I was just sitting on the couch watching
soccer and the security guard bangs on the door, sweating and going ‘get out
it’s on fire’.
“It
could have spread and so I grabbed the Mac, the passport, chucked it in a
suitcase and got out.”
Fire
crews battling the fire directed water into the building - sending out a shower
of sparks.
Twitter
user Mitch Williams posted startling video of the fire to his social media
account, and added "Hope everyone is OK".
He
later added that he believed the fire was now under control and praised the
"swift action" of the civil defence team.
The
Dubai Civil Defence is the emergency management organisation for the region and
revealed on Twitter how all tenants had been evacuated from the large building.
No-one
was reported killed or injured in the blaze, which was finally brought under
control shortly after 9pm UK time.
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