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From there. obviously you are a detective and we wanted to talk to you on counter terrorism and you have been on the scene and you can see the flaps see bright and red and what can you tell us about the fire fighting efforts. can can they get the equipment or have the equipment necessary to put it out. it is it a fast- moving and rapidly moving fire and going right up the building. as a nonfirefighter, one would think accelerant put in that and was it planned? we are not experts. that is for them to happen. if it is it a terror connected incident, we have serious problems. these are live pictures dubai tv. i would like to know what the ....
System to communicate with people inside of the hotel. any possibility that that communication system would be disabled in a tragedy like this? it is a good question. obviously that intense fire it could be. but people have cell phones and people have the ability to communicate through social media and that s why transparency. and timeliness is important. if they can t get intercom you can be sure they are on the cell phones and social media is a good way to communication. timeliness and truthfulness and acacy is so important. they are watching the television. and a civil defense official came out and said there are no injuries from the dubai hotel fire and new year celebrations will proceed which seems ....
That s the idea of sprinklers to knock it down on the inside of the building and allow the firef water flowing through the sprinkler system and put out the interior fire. so there is a chance most of the interior could have been spared and could have been mostly an exterior fire. in some spots it was breaking through the interior where either there weren t sprinklers involved, weren t installed. you don t know. but there are ways fire can still get in the building. i will tell you i m looking at one downloaded picture that was shot from the top of the building about half a mile away, probably a mile away. it looks like just one side of the building is on fire. i see no flames on the other side of the building from this picture that was posted on the internet. so maybe, you know, this civil ....
And somebody else will tend to the injured people and that kind of thing. we will show you. on the right hand side of the scene. this is the same building normally with no fire and pictures were taken prior to the fire that took place that started an hour and half ago in the dubai, united arab emirates. and on the willful of the hand side of the screen cutting away on dubai tv. and now back to the building aflame. does that give you any idea of whether this fire might be on one side of the building. that shot really doesn t. it is before and after. i did however, one of the periscope videos that i was watching, i had two going at one time. and one of them of i am not sure ....
With sprinklers and sand piped in. and you hope it is on the exterior and not in the core of the building. it looks like something is working. we are watching the live pictures, it looks like the lower floors. the fire is out and probably to your point, they would fight it from the ground and here at least, they can reach up to. by the way this is tape from earlier. i am not sure about the live pictures right now. typically here, you fight it from the ground up. yes, from what i understood, on periscope when it started initially. it looked like it began on the lower floor. they would not have gone above. that would put it out on the ....