The Torch Dubai on fire

[juddles]

Fire engulfs Dubai Marina Torch residential skyscraper

Have never been to Dubai, but this fire looks grim :/

 

[Mark3000]

Videos are amazing
20 floors on fire !!! Wow

 

[Pushka]

Grr. Keeps taking me to Twitter log in.

 

[TomVexille]

Rather unfortunate name...

Thankfully it does sound like they did manage to get everyone out safely

 

[JMFK]

Grr. Keeps taking me to Twitter log in.

This is hands down the most annoying bug on the AFF app.

Hate it.

 

[Mark3000]

This is hands down the most annoying bug on the AFF app.

Hate it.

Yes it is annoying, why does it load the Twitter widget?

 

[TomVexille]

Must be an Apple thing.

 

[Mark3000]

Must be an Apple thing.

Yes maybe, I am using iPhone

 

[JMFK]

Must be an Apple thing.

Perhaps. It'd be great to get it addressed though. Doesn't happen in Safari on the iPhone.

 

[juddles]

World´s tallest residential building?

 

[lovetravellingoz]

My daughter was freaking out for a while as her boyfriend's mother lives in that building. But all is good.

 

[juddles]

Amazing that they had such a fire with no casualities. I was fearing a 9-11 style collapse of the structure of a building full of firemen

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Amazing that they had such a fire with no casualities. I was fearing a 9-11 style collapse of the structure of a building full of firemen

Different and more modern design with concrete core, and without the jet fuel

 

[mushez]

Amazing that they had such a fire with no casualities. I was fearing a 9-11 style collapse of the structure of a building full of firemen

911 collapse was the only building collapse known caused by fire. Maybe the impact of the jets made the difference in that vrs all other fires, but odds of a building collapsing due to fire are zero to none.

 

[juddles]

911 collapse was the only building collapse known caused by fire. Maybe the impact of the jets made the difference in that vrs all other fires, but odds of a building collapsing due to fire are zero to none.

mushe, I must disagree. The failure of steel structures in fires is commonplace.

 

[juddles]

Have a ¨coffee break¨ and enjoy this:

http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/coffee-break/cb_fp_2012_50.pdf

 

[lovetravellingoz]

For those interested I would believe this brief technical article provides a pretty good summary that most can understand:
Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation'

An extract of this is below (you add the rapid fire to the loss of some columns from the plane impact):

[h=2]WAS THE WTC DEFECTIVELY DESIGNED?[/h]The World Trade Center was not defectively designed. No designer of the WTC anticipated, nor should have anticipated, a 90,000 L Molotov coughtail on one of the building floors. Skyscrapers are designed to support themselves for three hours in a fire even if the sprinkler system fails to operate. This time should be long enough to evacuate the occupants. The WTC towers lasted for one to two hours—less than the design life, but only because the fire fuel load was so large. No normal office fires would fill 4,000 square meters of floor space in the seconds in which the WTC fire developed. Usually, the fire would take up to an hour to spread so uniformly across the width and breadth of the building. This was a very large and rapidly progressing fire (very high heat but not unusually high temperature). Further information about the design of the WTC can be found on the World Wide Web.[SUP][SIZE=-1]5–8[/SIZE][/SUP]

 

[lovetravellingoz]

911 collapse was the only building collapse known caused by fire. Maybe the impact of the jets made the difference in that vrs all other fires, but odds of a building collapsing due to fire are zero to none.

Not sure why you are stating that, though the World Trade Buildings are the only tall towers to have collapsed due to fire (and as per my post above it was not just due to fire). In the face of a major fire event, fire regularly destroy buildings made from various materials.
When buildings are designed, they are in the vast majority of cases only designed to provide sufficient time for people to safely evacuate the building. They are not designed to survive any fire. They are designed to survive limited period before they would collapse should such a fire occur.


That is not to say that they not designed to survive minor fires.

 

[jukebox333]

I must be showing my age: when I watched the clips of The Torch fire, I thought "Geez - that seriously looks just like The Towering Inferno" (and remembered being taken as a kid to a now long-closed cinema on the East side of George Street opposite Hoyts to see it... also saw The Poseidon Adventure there too... ah, the 1970's and disaster movies; those were the days!).