Panic in Dubai as inferno rips though 63-storey hotel... but fails to halt New Year firework celebrations just 500 yards away.

New Year's revellers were sent running for their lives after a fire engulfed a five-star hotel just moments from where Dubai's spectacular fireworks display was due to begin.
The Address Downtown caught fire at about 9.30pm Dubai time, with the flames appearing to reach from the ground floor up another 40-or-so storeys of the 63 floor building.
Those who escaped described how people climbed over each other in their rush to escape the burning building.
One Briton was forced to carry his disabled mother on his back.
A medic has revealed that at least 60 people were hurt, many with crush injuries, with officials saying one person suffered a heart attack.

The hotel would likely have been packed with people waiting in their rooms for the best view of the fireworks display at the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper, which sits just across the lake from The Address.
Those waiting below found themselves in danger of being struck by burning debris falling from the building.
Angus Villar was in the hotel on the 15th floor when his father noticed the room next door was on fire.
He told Sky News he was forced to carry his disabled mother on his back to escape.
Mr Villar described it as 'pandemonium'.
'It was the classic thing where you would expect women and children first, but no. People were shoving each other down the stairs and climbing over each other,' he said.

Fire engines struggled to get through the crowds to the fire, which started on a terrace on the 20th floor, according to reports.
Police had already cordoned off roads in the area in expectation of a million people attending the vent.
Those who had arrived early to grab the best spots were forced to flee the blaze, yet despite the panic, the authorities have said the display is still going ahead.
They have also said no one was hurt in the blaze at the 300 metre tall building, and everyone had been evacuated safely.
The fire was almost entirely out by 11pm Dubai time, authorities said.
However, at midnight the fire was still blazing.
'There are no injuries, thank God ... of course, it will not affect the celebration,' Major General Rashed al-Matrushi, general director of the Dubai Civil Defence, told Al Arabiya.

Meanwhile, Ali Al Mutawa, of Dubai's Civil Defence, told 7Days UAE: 'We have controlled 65 per cent of the fire in the hotel and no casualties have been seen so far after evacuating the hotel.'
However, their statements were later amended.
The Dubai Media Office said 14 people had been lightly injured and that one suffered a heart attack due to the smoke and overcrowding during evacuation. The statement said another person was moderately injured, without elaborating further. No children were among those injured.
But a medic on the scene who declined to be identified told Reuters: 'There are more than 60 people injured with light injuries from smoke inhalation and from crowding while in the stairs evacuating the building.'
The fire began at about 9.30pm, and is said to have taken hold of the outside of the building within minutes.
Tom Stroud, 35, an eyewitness who is on holiday in Dubai, said: 'There was no bang or bomb-like sound, we just looked over and saw an inferno.
'It gathered speed extremely quickly.'
Atieh S (@AtiehS), who watched from a nearby building, said the fire took hold in just five minutes.
She tweeted: 'People are running away! This is so horrific!!!!! Falling on people's houses.'
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