A massive fire broke out at a residential tower in Al Nahda, Sharjah, on Tuesday night. Of the 12 people who were injured, five were rushed to hospital with smoke inhalation and seven were treated on the spot.
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00:00I think around nine o'clock, my family was asleep. I was not asleep.
00:05And I heard people shouting from the next building. They were shouting fire, basically
00:12making a commotion. So when I checked, they were pointing at our building and shouting fire.
00:16So when I looked down from... I stay in the sixth floor. So when I looked down from my window,
00:23I could see that bright light from the ground floors below. And basically what I did was just
00:32take my family out of the building as we were. They were sleeping. So I woke them up and I told
00:37them the building was on fire. So I took my family downstairs to the ground floor. And then that's
00:43when we saw that the building was actually on fire. The fire was starting from the floors below.
00:48I believe the fire started maybe from between the first floor and the third floor.
00:53I think the fire came from the parking. So we were just alerted by our next building.
01:01So we don't know much. We just evacuated from there. Reaching down, we heard the fire alarm.
01:07Before that, we didn't hear. We were just very nervous and we were running around the stairs
01:14because it's such a huge building. We are not using stairs there.
01:18I was in my house and I heard, you know, things burning. So I was like, oh, what is burning?
01:23So I checked down. When I checked down, I saw fire coming from down, coming up.
01:28So I had to get my kids and we just ran out. We just took our phones and ran out because the fire
01:32was massive and it was coming from up, coming up, from down, coming up.
01:37I stay in this building 306 and when I was coming from my duty and I'm a nurse,
01:45I was coming from my duty. When I came here, it's almost like a smoke. Then it went up like,
01:52it was like within 10 minutes, the whole building got fired. And from like 7.40 to until 9,
02:01it was getting burned, burned out. And a lot of cars were exploded like that. And
02:09it was since seven years I'm in UAE, I never had such an experience.
02:15So the building has six apartments on either side. There's five lifts, three on one side and two on
02:23the other side. And on every side of the apartment area, there's a one staircase. So that's a total
02:29of two staircases to take people down. They come from all the way from the top floor to
02:34the ground floor, I think to the basement actually. Right now we are stranded. We don't
02:38know what to do right now. So we just got some apartment because we had to get somewhere that
02:43kids can't sleep. So we had to get an apartment. So now we don't know what's next because I'm
02:49staying on this side and as you can see, everything is damaged. Everything is spoiled.
02:55This side is where the kitchens are. So everything is completely gone on our side.
03:01They took us to the nearest ground and they told us we will be given an accommodation.
03:08But in the late night, yeah, we got an accommodation. Most families, they were taken
03:13to hotels. I think they provide two or three hotels. I'm not sure about it, but I'm staying
03:18in a hotel and they said once this is ready, they will let us know. Until that, we will be there.
03:25I don't know what the plans are after this one, after today.
03:29Probably it's just an emergency relocation before we know the way forward.