Filipino photographer saved by window-cleaner's rope; hangs off 48th-floor balcony for two hours during the Dubai hotel fire on New Year. Here's the story...
Dubai-based Filipino photographer Dennis Borja Mallari was in The Address Downtown on New Year’s Eve to photograph the Burj Khalifa fireworks.
After the fire broke out at around 9.30pm – which is said to have started on the 20th floor – he found himself in a smoke-filled room with no obvious route for escape.
Seeing it as his only option, he then dangled from the 48th storey of the 990-foot-tall building on a window cleaning platform, phoning friends to ask for help.
Dubai-based Filipino photographer Dennis Borja Mallari was in The Address Downtown on New Year’s Eve to photograph the Burj Khalifa fireworks.
After the fire broke out at around 9.30pm – which is said to have started on the 20th floor – he found himself in a smoke-filled room with no obvious route for escape.
Seeing it as his only option, he then dangled from the 48th storey of the 990-foot-tall building on a window cleaning platform, phoning friends to ask for help.
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#MUSTWATCH:Filipino photographer saved by window-cleaner's rope; hangs off 48th-floor balcony for two hours during the Dubai hotel fire on New Year. Here's the story...Dubai-based Filipino photographer Dennis Borja Mallari was in The Address Downtown on New Year’s Eve to photograph the Burj Khalifa fireworks.After the fire broke out at around 9.30pm – which is said to have started on the 20th floor – he found himself in a smoke-filled room with no obvious route for escape.Seeing it as his only option, he then dangled from the 48th storey of the 990-foot-tall building on a window cleaning platform, phoning friends to ask for help.Then, after almost 90 minutes of clinging for his life outside the building, the video shows a firefighter named Hassan appearing to save him, and helping him off the ledge. Hassan and Dennis then run down 48 storeys of the building to the safety of an ambulance (where you can see another firefighter being treated for smoke inhalation). “I was the last person in that swirling smoke. I could see the stampede down below, people running in all directions. Then I thought to myself: that’s it, you are alone,” said Mr Mallari.From the ground, a handful of colleagues kept their eyes glued to Mr Mallari’s bobbing head torch - the only sign to onlookers that he was still alive.“One hour, then that’s it, I’m dead,” he thought as he stood there. He was eventually saved by rescue workers after calling and texting colleagues asking for help.(c/o www.telegraph.co.uk/ and whatson.ae)Video Source: Dennis Mallari's Youtube Account
Posted by Edmund Jay Michael Rubin on Sunday, 3 January 2016
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