Fire wreaks Bt200-m damage at warehouse

By Suriya Patathayo 
The Nation

 

 

A fire swept through a warehouse in Bangkok’s Bang Bon district on Sunday morning, causing damage worth more than Bt200 million.
 

Inside the warehouse were musical instruments, sports equipment and sportswear. The building, which belongs to Landco Sport and Musical Co, is now closed pending inspection by public works officials. 

 

“We are a wholesaler,” the company’s owner Achara Artiphanu said of the company, whose four-storey building covers more than one rai (0.16 hectare) of land.

 

Pol Lt-Colonel Sirichart Chanpromma, an inspector at the Tha Kham Police Station, said the fire spread quickly because the products inside were easily flammable. 

 

“Now, the blaze is under control,” he said yesterday afternoon. “But firemen have to constantly inject water to prevent smouldering debris from re-igniting the fire.” 

 

He said the fire did not cause any casualties as nobody was at the warehouse at the time the fire occurred. 

 

“It remains unclear what caused the fire. We will have to interview the warehouse owner and wait for the results of tests by forensic officers,” Sirichart said. 

 

Achara said she had been running the wholesale business for more than four decades, “but we moved to this place in 2004”. 

 

She said the warehouse was equipped with safety facilities, including fire-extinguishing equipment. 

 

“But today is the Sunday, and no one was working inside the warehouse,” she added. 

 

Achara said someone heard an alarm before noticing smoke billowing out of the building. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30341188

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-19

3 hours ago, webfact said:

“It remains unclear what caused the fire. We will have to interview the warehouse owner and wait for the results of tests by forensic officers,” Sirichart said. 

With obese kids now not wanting sports stuff and musical instruments as they have mobiles phones glued to their fingers I would not be surprised if this was an insurance jobbie ! 

'She said the warehouse was equipped with safety facilities, including fire-extinguishing equipment. '

 

If they are only extinguishers, no sign of a sprinkler installation, and no one was present then there is no one to operate the equipment. I guess no fire detection equipment either.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

But today is the Sunday, and no one was working inside the warehouse,” she added

She went on to add,  this was no different than any other day as Candy Crush has captivated the staff.

Hard to believe it caused 200 million baht worth of damage, its if 20 million is sounds more reasonable. The company sells mostly goods from China, which are all pretty cheap.

Interesting picture, at least one of the Aerial Ladders is a Metz, I wonder if this indicates that some of the trucks involved in the Fire Truck scandal many years ago are now operational