Just damn.
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Posted on 11/04/2005 9:17:16 AM PST by mhking
From SkyNews:
Petronas Towers Evacuated Updated: 16:48, Friday November 04, 2005
The second tallest buildings in the world are being evacuated following a fire alert.
Fire is reported to have broken out in the multiplex cinemas of Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers.
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A little early to make the call I suppose -- but that my first thought as well.
That thing would have sprinklers I hope...
I'm betting that in itself would take a couple of hours.
What building is bigger than the towers these days?
TROP? I doubt it in this case....
Doesn't seem like much to go on. Sometimes these things are breathlessly reported and we find out someone was smoking a cigarette in the bathroom and set a trash can on fire.
Hope and pray for the best.
according to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_towers
The Taipei 101 tower surpsassed it in 2003.
More terrorist activity in Paris and Malaysia. Time to do some pest control.
I believe Taipei 101 in Taiwan is currently the world's tallest building, but the World Financial Tower in Shanghai is going to be the tallest when it is completed
The tallest... I'm not sure, but America lost that distinction long ago.
Brand new building, probably has excellent fire suppression. If it started small and in one place, it's probably already extinguished.
Oh crap. Was wondering if this was an ongoing fire from the other thread.
And isn't it overnight there right now?
Taipei 101 in Taiwan
the burj dubai will surpass them all when its completed. its under construction now in dubai and will be anywhere from 160-200 floors and well over 2000ft.
Especially with separate male/female exits. ROP requirement.
That's a lot of bamboo!
Fire Starts at Petronas Towers in Malaysia
A fire in a movie complex in Malaysia's iconic Petronas Twin Towers late Friday night triggered widespread panic among patrons who fled screaming and coughing from the thick, acrid smoke, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of injury.Hundreds of people rushed out of several theaters on the third floor of the Suria KLCC shopping mall in the twin towers a little before midnight after dark gray smoke engulfed hallways, foyers and the cinemas, they said.
"It was really terrible. People were running helter-skelter. We were choking and coughing and it's a miracle there was no stampede," said Minati Panda, a Kuala Lumpur resident who was watching a movie with her husband.
The glass-and-steel, gray Petronas Twin Towers, once the world's tallest before being upstaged by a building in Taiwan, are located in downtown Kuala Lumpur and are considered a living symbol of Malaysia's economic progress.
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