DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A fire broke out after midnight in one of the world’s tallest residential towers in Dubai, engulfing part of the skyscraper and sending chunks of debris plummeting below.
More than 40 floors of the 86-story Torch Tower were burning on one side of the building, an Associated Press journalist near the scene of the blaze said. Building residents could be seen on the street outside crying with several saying the fire broke out just after 1 a.m. Friday local time.
Dubai’s Civil Defense announced at about 3:30 a.m. that firefighters had brought the blaze under control and that no injuries had been reported.
“Cooling operations are underway,” Dubai’s media office said on Twitter.
It was the second time in 2 1/2 years that the more than 1,100-foot-tall tower has been ravaged by fire.
The tower is located in the popular waterfront Marina district. It also caught fire in February 2015, but there were no major casualties reported in that blaze.
