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Beha behave. you never know which way a person is going to go, upstairs or downstairs, hide. you never know what s going to happen. the number one priority is safety. that s the main concern to figure out where people are going, what they are doing so you can get to them and bring clarity back into their heads so you can lead them out of the building or have them evacuate. it s a scary thing to be lost in a fire when have you no fire protection. chris, stand by. we re looking at the dubai hotel, five-story, 263 meters tall, 62 stories. let s go back to john. let s talk boult how busy the area is? ....
Plume of black smoke coming between the hotel and flames burst out big. before we knew it. it was covered in orange flames and so yeah. it does seem fully involved. it happen quickly and turn about standing near a building is collapses and verrandas burning away and on videos i was watching. there were huge empers blowing in the wend and blowing 1 or 2 blocks. and i have sewn some running away from the fire. this is real and if the fire started on the 20 g floor it could have been drop down fire falling down in the street and ....
Out we don t want to speculate as to the cause of the fire. we are not hearing from authorities and officials at this point. unclear if anybody is trapped. it doesn t look like at this point, but again, i want to be very careful not to speculate and then there is a lot of the other questions. but we heard that evacuations have been under way according to witnesses and people are posting pictures and some of the witnesses, they said it started and engulfed the building very quickly and spread to 20 floors and again, that could be higher. and it could have grown since it started as you mentioned arthel. whether they have it under control. there are some saying it is under control. but it is it not the case tis it very much burning. and a lot of questions can close ....
A lot of efforts, then calm things down. at the moment, priority save lives, coral people. they have to be talked to by police as it progresses. chris, how is that from your perspective as a firefighter? say that again, you broke up. i wanted to get back to your point where you said earlier, you mentioned how fires were unpredictable. i said people are unpredictable involved. how does that affect you in terms of a firefighter, save the people, save the building? fire is unpredictable. when you ve dealt with it a while you learn how it behaves. my 25 years i ve never been able to learn or predict how people ....
No, it s not surprising it happened. you hope it doesn t. you hope that we build buildings, you know, the people are kept safe and the fire is kept to a minimum. the reality is we re not perfect and fire is unpredictable. it will get you. i m getting a better picture now of people on the scene downloading pictures on the internet. one person had a picture of the hotel, again, 63 stories tall in which the other side is completely not involved with fire. there are no flames on one side of the building. but the flip side of the building, the other side of the building is engulfed in flames almost fully. so it s curious but maybe it s just half the building that s burning. most of the picks we ve been watching over the last 52 mince since we began covering this are on one side. let s hope that s the case. ....