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Car fire put out in Dubai Design District

Thursday, 24 February 2022 16:00

By ARN News Staff

Emergency services extinguished a burning car in the Dubai Design District on Thursday afternoon.

The Dubai Civil Defence Operations Room were alerted about the incident at 12:53 pm.

Firefighting teams responded within four minutes and began extinguishing the blaze.

At 1:20 pm, the field commander declared the fire "under control".

Cooling operations were then carried out, before the site was transferred to the competent authorities to complete the investigations.

No injuries were reported in the incident.

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