"Four firefighting teams have been deployed" to fight the blaze, it added."At least 14 people have been slightly injured, along with one medium injury, and a heart attack case registered due to people pushing" amid the smoke, the media office tweeted.Lasers flashed through the skies over the chic district surrounding the tower, even as smoke was still billowing from the blaze nearby. There were a lot of people who fainted and there were many ambulances" as well as "crowding and pushing..."The government tweeted that the hotel fire erupted on the 20th floor and affected only the outer facade of the building.Kumar, an Indian resident in Dubai who was near the hotel with his wife, told AFP: "We saw fire coming out of the top storeys two hours before midnight and people began screaming and running away from the hotel. "All the residents are out," General Khamis Matar al-Mzeima said.An AFP photographer at the scene said "it began in the middle of the hotel, then went down like lightning before shooting up again.""People in the vicinity began to run in panic to get away from the area," he added.
"A video circulating on social media showed anxious shoppers at the huge nearby Dubai Mall as China Compression Tooling Suppliers they rushed to get out, with a woman shouting: "Folks don't run.Witness Raphael Slama told AFP the fire started at around 9:30 pm (1730 GMT) and rapidly spread upwards across dozens of floors. It was later revealed to have been caused by a cigarette butt thrown into a bin..."There were a lot of screams.Dubai's police chief said all the residents of the five-star hotel had been evacuated from the scene of the blaze, the cause of which was unknown and which had still not been extinguished some four hours after it broke out.