Experts warn that Israeli planning restrictions, a weak health system, and a lack of awareness pose serious risks in the event of a large-scale disaster.
control of the majority of the fire and because the fire stoppers inside the building started working not immediately but they are work iing after so minutes after the eruption of the fire, so they doubt that there will be any consequences such as collapsing of the building. the official story of the people concerned there. i know that you ve been in touch with dubai officials. has any official, whether the head of police are head of the emergency respond teams, has anybody indicated to you what may have caused this fire to break out? do we know any possible reasons as of yet why this happened? we did ask, and the answer was that it s too early to judge that. it s early to reach the floor
point as if it s going to other parts of the hotel and all the way from the top floor. i don t see an attempt to try to put it out. i just can t see it from where i am. i will ask you to stay with us for a few more minutes. i will bring in cal perry again who has been monitoring this situation for us on social media and online as well. i don t know if you have had a chance to get an update either from the address hotel itself or perhaps from the government of dubai, but what else are you hearing at this point? the government is saying that at least four civil defense teams, those are just firefighting teams, arrived on scene shortly after the fire broke out. they were working their way first through evacuation procedures, trying to get everybody out of that hotel. they are telling local media, they are not telling us yet so we can t independently confirm this bthey are telling local media no injuries reported yet which is good news, obviously. the concern you will have here is not
there to watch that fireworks display which is scheduled to take place about an hour and 15 minutes out of that area, out of that mall which is in the basement of that hotel and just completely out of that part of the city. fighting fires in high-rise buildings is incredibly difficult because it s hard to get water to the top floors. the water pressure just doesn t work that way. so it can be very difficult to get water on a fire of this magnitude at this kind of height. so what you are likely to see is firefighters trying to tamp out the fire, get the oxygen out of that building but first getting the people out of the building. witnesses on the ground are saying that there are, we heard there from the reporting from dubai, there are pieces of that building falling on to the ground. that is a major concern for these civil defense teams, for these firefighters. again, as people are gathered there for the fireworks display. there is no indication as of yet and this is i think something t