Deadly fires
This year alone, 22 people were killed in four major fires reported in various emirates.
October 2, 2018:
Eight Emiratis from a family die after their house goes up in flames in Bani Yas, Abu Dhabi.
A Filipino seaman is killed and two others are injured when their towing vessel catches fire following a reported ‘explosion’ off the coast of Fujairah.
February 25:
February 12:
Six people including a mother and her two children die of suffocation after a fire breaks out in an apartment building in Al Butainah area of Sharjah. January 22:
Seven children of an Emirati family including five-year-old twins, die of suffocation after a fire breaks out in their house in Rul Dhadna district in Fujairah.
A worker dies in a fire that broke out in Factory Mart in the Ajman Industrial Mart.
Two Pakistani brothers, aged six and eight, die in a massive fire that broke out in their shared house in Al Ghafya area of Sharjah.
Two Asian men die of suffocation and five others are injured in a massive fire that broke out in Al Manama Supermarket in Sharjah.
A five-year-old girl dies in a fire at a villa in Al Warqa’a, Dubai. The girl died of suffocation and five others were injured.
Emirati twin sisters die in a fire that broke out in a villa in Al Twar area, Dubai. The 20-year-old sisters dies of suffocation due to smoke inhalation.
December 16, 2017: May 5: April 14: April 7: March 14:
January 6:
Three workers die in a fire that broke out in a furniture warehouse in the Kalba industrial area. December 11, 2016:
A 57-year-old Emirati woman dies after a fire broke out in their villa in Ras Al Khaimah.
An Emirati mother and her two daughters, including a top official, die of suffocation when a massive fire breaks out in a villa in Sharjah.
A mother and her two daughters die when a fire broke out in their shared house in Al Ghafya area in Sharjah.
October 22: June 6: September 8:
Two tenants die and one is severely injured in an attempt to escape a fire that ripped through a onebedroom apartment in the England Cluster of International City in Dubai.
February 20, 2015:
A massive fire erupts in car and tyre shops located in a two-storey building in Musaffah, Abu Dhabi. 11 people are killed and seven injured.