3 hours ago, mercman24 said:

keep working ha ha got to keep that thai *wife* happy lol, no one is interested in your *view/opinion* walking street gives a living to thousands of people, and brings in millions of baht, yep sunshine i do LIVE here. jog on.

I am interested in his "*view/opinion*", as I am yours. I don't profess to know-it-all, or suggest people to "jog on". The sun does indeed shine in Pattaya, a place I have called home for year, and I find no need for CAPS, which denotes shouting. 

 

I have found that a quieter, live and let live approach allows me more time to enjoy the time I have left, and to keep my side of the street clean.

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Bar girls could be seen running to safety as the fire quickly spread from the Marine Disco to neighbouring bars and properties.

 

The OP mentioned the fire starting near Marine Disco. Did Marine Disco get burned in this?

 

Not understand Marine disco is in Walking Street  quote-"the fire spread from there"  Marine Disco is on  the beach side, then it said Soi 16.   that is on the East side.     Some one has had too many Bacardi's 

4 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Judging by the videos and photos, it is quite amazing that only two tourists were hospitalized; well done to the people (fire-fighters, etc.) managing the situation!

 

It is a sad event as I understand that Pattaya already is slowing down a bit; this will make things worse. Whether you like it or not, 'Walking Street' in known internationally and a sure tourist draw.

 

Hang in there, Pattaya!

less people & less cars can only ever be a good thing for pattaya,

but i dont see that happening unfortunately

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Dodgy and overloaded electrics, limited safety measures and death traps are nation-wide.

Absolutely right, and although this post is not about Pattaya, but Patong, as I remember the Tiger Disco fire, which was supposedly started by a faulty transformer, then the fire above Seduction disco and the burning of the restaurant above it was started by faulty electrics and many others which didn't cause any loss of life. 

 

What is common around Thailand and especially the places where the nightlife is rampant, is the fact that the whole electrical system is appalling and totally suspect, and many has been the time I have been shaken by a huge explosion close by my apartment where during the time I have been here transformers and associated electrical gear have blown up around a dozen times.

 

Thailand and electrical safety is an oxymoron and are poles apart (sorry about the pun). How many lives need to be lost before something is done about this fiasco?

6 minutes ago, ginjag said:

Not understand Marine disco is in Walking Street  quote-"the fire spread from there"  Marine Disco is on  the beach side, then it said Soi 16.   that is on the East side.     Some one has had too many Bacardi's 

Just to add,   if a lot of burnt out motor cycles,  and it is Walking street ????

It's not Walking Street, it's the other Marine Disco at the back of Marine Bar near second road.

Amazing job last night by the police and emergency services. However very lucky this happened in a area of mainly open bars allowing people to quickly escape . If this had been close to the main closed in nightclubs we would looking seeing different news headlines today. Many of these big nightclubs do not have the exits to allow customers to escape a emergency simoliar to last night .

19 minutes ago, Cranky said:

It's not Walking Street, it's the other Marine Disco at the back of Marine Bar near second road.

Yes there's a few Marine Discos around that area. Probably Marine Mansion, the hotel in soi 16, had a disco on the ground floor a few years ago, not sure if it's still going. 

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Officials have promised a full investigation into the fire, which is suspected to be caused by a faulty electrical transformer. 

 

 

How about having an investigation into their electrical infrastructure?  This is the second transformer fire on Walking street in the last year or so right?  

 

 

Nero played the fiddle while...?

5 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Judging by the videos and photos, it is quite amazing that only two tourists were hospitalized; well done to the people (fire-fighters, etc.) managing the situation!

 

It is a sad event as I understand that Pattaya already is slowing down a bit; this will make things worse. Whether you like it or not, 'Walking Street' in known internationally and a sure tourist draw.

 

Hang in there, Pattaya!

Hence the moniker: Amazing Thailand

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

Thailand and electrical safety is an oxymoron and are poles apart (sorry about the pun). How many lives need to be lost before something is done about this fiasco?

Thailand is a third world country. Lots of things to be brought up to scratch. But if everything was ticky-boo, farang might go elsewhere for their pleasure.

1 hour ago, pi2005ni said:

Amazing job last night by the police and emergency services.

 

Let's do remember TVF posters sneering and accusing the authorities of corruption for clearing the side roads of street vendors to enable better access for emergency vehicles.

 

the best would be to knock down whole of walking street. Build another sort for recreation....or a nursing home for ripped off farangs who lost their many with prostitutes...

This will leave a convenient gap for redevelopment.

1 minute ago, Airbagwill said:

This will leave a convenient gap for redevelopment.

A gap?

The fire itself may have been impressive (because of the products inside the transformer) but it stayed mainly around the electric pole and barely spread around. if you look at pics already posted, you will notice that the 2 bars touched by the fire must cover at most 6x10 meters. A very small area and nothing important destroyed. Even the cheap sheet metal roof resisted !

 

4 minutes ago, Pattaya46 said:

A gap?

The fire itself may have been impressive (because of the products inside the transformer) but it stayed mainly around the electric pole and barely spread around. if you look at pics already posted, you will notice that the 2 bars touched by the fire must cover at most 6x10 meters. A very small area and nothing important destroyed. Even the cheap sheet metal roof resisted !

 

Unfortunate if the gap isn't big enough, but I'm sure subsequent structural surveys will convince the lcal authorities that enough needs pulling down for a new business to be built.

It's a regular occurrence/observation to both see and hear these transformers crackling and sparkling all over the land of smiles ! I've seen one go off in Bangla Rd opposite Kangaroo Bar and another in Khon Kaen. 

The electrical work here blows me away ( almost literally in Bangla Rd ! ).

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Just now, Chriss77 said:

It's a regular occurrence/observation to both see and hear these transformers crackling and sparkling all over the land of smiles ! I've seen one go off in Bangla Rd opposite Kangaroo Bar and another in Khon Kaen. 

The electrical work here blows me away ( almost literally in Bangla Rd ! ).

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i'm sure your right. also if I wanted to destroy a building surely that would be a least suspected way for a fire to start too?

25 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

the best would be to knock down whole of walking street. Build another sort for recreation....or a nursing home for ripped off farangs who lost their many with prostitutes...

 

Bitterness no less. 

1 hour ago, ThaiFelix said:

Nero played the fiddle while...?

...while bizarre, unconnected posts appeared.

Looks like Marine 2, the arab area

to clarify. soi 16 near marine plaza not walking st. 2 bars badly damaged some others with minor problems. 6 motorcy parked near the guilty transformer completely destroyed by fire and their petrol tanks would have added fuel to the fire.

the name of the bar complex which i had never noticed till the morning............

 

the 2 bars fronting soi 16 suffering most were titanic and ann ann.

could have been much worse

Well done to the rapid response teams.

That the arab street? Maybe the speakers finally went dead after years of blasting with 99% distortion.

They almost made it to the anniversary:

15 March 2017, transformer explosion in front of "Rock Street" in the heart of WS.

FORTUNATELY this happened at 7:30 AM.

That would have cost lives otherwise.

(popular "open" live music place, popular gogo next to it affected)

 

Rebuilt and now a huge new transformer at the place.

7 hours ago, YetAnother said:

tough for the TAT to positively spin this one

Allow me. Only 2 tourists were treated for burns and smoke inhalation after that huge fire in a very busy tourist area AND inside a disco. That's good news!

1 minute ago, tropo said:

Allow me. Only 2 tourists were treated for burns and smoke inhalation after that huge fire in a very busy tourist area AND inside a disco. That's good news!

it was good news. but not inside a disco. it was a single level outside beer bar complex

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