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Fire guts 25-storey Sharjah residential tower

by CW Staff on Jan 26, 2012

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A 25-storey residential building in Sharjah was gutted by a blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

A 25-storey residential building in Sharjah was turned into a towering inferno in the early hours of Wednesday morning, leaving 125 families homeless. No injuries or deaths were reported.

Civil Defence teams from Sharjah, Dubai, Ajman and Umm Al Quwain responded to a 02:15 distress call at Al Baker Tower 4 in the Al Taawun area.

A senior police official said the fire began on the first floor and then spread quickly “due to the weather and wind speed.”

Also to blame were “the materials used in the building’s exterior, which were flammable,” said Brigadier General Abdullah Saeed Al Suwaidi, director general of Civil Defence in Sharjah.

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