DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Firefighters in Dubai worked Friday morning to extinguish the remnants of a blaze that consumed a 63-story luxury hotel on New Year’s Eve, a few hundred yards from the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
As of 11:30 a.m., according to a government statement, firefighters were still “cooling down” the skyscraper, as plumes of smoke continued to billow from the lower portions of the tower, more than 13 hours after the fire broke out.
At least 14 people were injured in the blaze, and one person had a heart attack. No deaths were reported.
The cause of the fire remained unclear, although Col. Saif al-Mazrouei, the director of Dubai’s traffic department, told The National, an English-language newspaper based in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, that the fire had been accidental and had started at the exterior of the hotel at the 20th floor.
The hotel, the Address Downtown Dubai, opened in 2008. It contains traditional hotel rooms and long-term residential suites, many of them owned by investors.
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