Huge fire engulfs a timber factory in Bang Pa-in

By Thai PBS

 

 

A huge timber factory in Ayutthaya’s Bang Pa-in district caught fire at about 5 pm on Thursday (Apr 12).

 

More than ten fire trucks were rushed to the scene of the inferno at Palace timber factory, located on a two-rai land plot on Route 347 at kilometer marker 19+800 in Tambon Bang Krasan, Ban Pa-in district to try to contain the fire from spreading to a nearby petrol station.

 

Pol Cpt Kittithorn Salyaruen, deputy inspector of Bang Pa-in district police, said that, for safety reason and for ensuring uninterrupted fire-fighting effort, all cars using Route 347 between Pathum Thani and Bang Pahan were diverted to Route 9 or the western ring road to get into Asian highway.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/huge-fire-engulfs-timber-factory-bang-pa/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-13

Good planning timber factory next/near a petrol station!!!!!!!

It's a sprawling lean-to corrugated metal shack place along about a hundred metres of roadside frontage. Seems to specialise in timber pallets. Scruffy with no visible safety planning and all manner of pickup and 6 wheelers lurching in and out all day.

 

An accident waiting to happen with not even some quality charcoal left to salvage...