Fire at Al Hamra Tower… Tomorrow
Tomorrow their will be a huge fire on the 61st floor of the Al Hamra Tower which is the soon to be tallest building in Kuwait. I can’t see the future but a reader emailed me telling me they will be testing the firefighting capabilities tomorrow. I didn’t quite understand if they will be testing the actual firefighters capabilities to fight a fire in a high-rise or if they’re testing the fire readiness of the building. In any case if you see smoke tomorrow you know why.
Thanks Ba3ks
Update: The exercise took place today but I don’t have any pictures so if you do send it in.
Oct 11, 2009
Huh ?
Funny stuff dude :-| .
Causing a fire knowlingly and then * yelling * 911 , 911 ! HELP .
Funny , Totally ! =D
il be able to smell the smoke in my apartment!
Its actually to see how fast they can reach and put out that fire at such a distance.
The Kuwait Fire Department will be testing their capabilities to attend to a fire and perform an evacuation in a high rise building DURING construction.
it’s worth watching though :P
Here goes our tallest building !
LOL .. my friends were at the 60 floor two days ago .. the KVWC ..are going up there to photograph each Thursday … you can find some really good photos of kuwait city in the KVWC group in flicker !
they all say it’s pretty windy at the 60th floor .. so .. when there well be a fire up there … my guess is there well flying fire shrapnel’s from up there :/ !!
Readying my Steaks and burgers will go BBQ on the 60th floor :)
Al hamra has reached 77th floor
should we call 112 when we saw the fire ? testing ourselves as well !! ;Pp
An official from the fire department will visit the site to check that the fire detection and management systems are in order…this is a prerequisite to project handover from contractors to landlords. Once the whole building is cleared by FD, then Municipality will come in to check that the building is as per code and design. When all clearance certificates/letters are obtained and the building is declared structurally and technically fit for occupation, landlord can in turn handover to tenants.
maybe the guy just watched Final Destination 3-D!!
All I know is I dont want to be the tenant on the top, unless I have my private helicopter.
Im watching right now from al raya on the 40th floor, they have the whole street blocked and i counted about 18 fire trucks so far, its actually pretty neat, good to know when have fire fighting capabilities
youtube it people
The crisis would be if they start a fire for testing and they cant control !
God forbid!
You dont have to train as a thief to become a cop…However they do teach the cops criminal psycology…This one sounds on the contrary.
Hope it went well…
Mark, i just got off the phone with one of the heads at Ahmadiah Contracting & Trading Company who are currently building the tower and he told me that the fire was set today and has already been done, It was just to check if the fire fighters could get to the top on time and put the fire off.
Aziz I posted this yesterday
Oh Sorry My Mistake :$