Dubai-based Filipino news photographer Dennis Borja Mallari thought he would not live to see 2016 as he stood at the edge of a 48th floor balcony of a five-star hotel in the cosmopolitan Middle Eastern city’s downtown area that caught fire on New Year’s Eve.

The 37-year-old Mallari was a staff photographer of The Manila Times before moving to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2005.

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