Sharjah: Hundreds of families were displaced after a massive fire broke out in the 40-storey Al Tayer Tower near Al Nahda park in Sharjah.

November 8, 2011
A massive fire broke out at a high-rise residential tower in Al Nahda area in Sharjah that left six people injured.

October 28, 2008
A two-year-old girl, Kinoor, and her 26-year-old brother Ramesh, from Nepal, were burned to death in a fire on the fourth floor of the Abdullah Khouri building at Jamal Abdul Nasser Street in Sharjah.

August 21, 2007
One person died and three family members sustained injuries after a fire that broke out in an apartment on the eighth floor in Al Tahira tower in Al Nahda, Sharjah.

April 9, 2007
A fire broke out on the eight floor of an apartment opposite the Sharjah Rotana Hotel. A mother in the flat dropped her two children aged three and five from the building to save them from a fire. One of the boys died on the spot.

February 2, 2007
Fire tore through four floors of Majaz 2 residential tower in Sharjah, forcing more than 250 residents to flee the thick smoke that filled their rooms.

January 9, 2007
Several apartments of a 47-storey building under construction were gutted after a fire broke out at Dana Tower, near the Buhairah Corniche.

January 27, 2006
Two people were killed and more than 200 were injured in a massive blaze that engulfed the two-storey building in Sharjah.