Fire destroys modified electric car while family sleeps upstairs

By The Nation

 

Firefighters broke into a shophouse in Pathum Thani to put out a blaze that engulfed a modified electric car while its owner, his family and a worker slept unknowing upstairs early on Saturday.

 

The Muang Pathum Thani police station and fire station were alerted to the fire at 1:20am and 10 fire engines were dispatched to the three-storey shophouse in front of Pathum Thani Hospital.

 

Arriving firefighters encountered black smoke pouring out from the ground floor while the front metal rolling door was closed. Firefighters cut open the door and found a Toyota engulfed in the fire.

 

They took about four minutes to put out the blaze.

Firefighters went upstairs to find Phaisal Tungyarit, 65, and his wife and two children sleeping in their third-floor bedroom, while a worker slept in another bedroom on the same floor.

 

Phaisal said he had modified the car use to use a battery and solar cell panel. The car was being charged with a wall plug when he went to sleep.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30344689

 

 

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3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Phaisal said he had modified the car use to use a battery and solar cell panel.

Phaisal is a Thai engineer. As all the Thais he KNOWS.

maybe Phaisal needs to stick to selling noodle soup

 

lucky someone noticed the fire or they could all have been barbequed

Borzany says it all "As a Thai He knows". In ever profession in Thailand from the shade tree mechanics to engineers with degrees,none of them will ask about something that they don't know as it shows a loss of face.That is why with out European or American overseers,buildings fall down,engines and motors fail.streets and roads collapses ,cities flood and many other things that don;t need to be happening. By the way how much does a Masters Degree in Engineering cost today from a university ? 

PHD's with engineering degrees from the west blow things up too.  He should try again as he has learned from his mistakes. 

1 minute ago, yellowboat said:

PHD's with engineering degrees from the west blow things up too.  He should try again as he has learned from his mistakes. 

So yellowboat,where in Asia are you from ?

4 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

PHD's with engineering degrees from the west blow things up too.  He should try again as he has learned from his mistakes. 

You are not keeping to the script.

For a large proportion on here ( not all ) only thais make mistakes that never ever happen elsewhere in the world. 

These traits are heightened in direct proportion to ones general dissatisfaction with life .

Luv to see what the Frankenstein machine looked like before it committed suicide. 

2 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

You are not keeping to the script.

For a large proportion on here ( not all ) only thais make mistakes that never ever happen elsewhere in the world. 

These traits are heightened in direct proportion to ones general dissatisfaction with life .

Unlike most perhaps, I actually work with Thais, Chinese, Taiwanese, Malaysians and Vietnamese on a daily basis.  My life is far too adventurous but not dissatisfying.  

Thais are well known for sleepjng soundly regardless of the noise and mayhem around them .Security guards and Thais in transit  and this family for example .

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Phaisal said he had modified the car use to use a battery and solar cell panel.

 

Hope this small mishap doesn't affect his plan to launch it into orbit around Mars.

6 hours ago, yellowboat said:

PHD's with engineering degrees from the west blow things up too.  He should try again as he has learned from his mistakes. 

yep , ya gotta love watching the prossess of natural selection at work . 

 

This muppet was obviously trained at some Thai School for the " know everything brigade " here.

Top of class NFC

 

Isn’t this the exact type of thing prayut was trying to encourage doing... innovative cottage engineering.

So, this guy and his whole family where sleeping through a major fire in their home AND when the fire brigade arrived??

I don't want to know what they use as an alarm clock.

19 hours ago, AsiaHand said:

Borzany says it all "As a Thai He knows". In ever profession in Thailand from the shade tree mechanics to engineers with degrees,none of them will ask about something that they don't know as it shows a loss of face.That is why with out European or American overseers,buildings fall down,engines and motors fail.streets and roads collapses ,cities flood and many other things that don;t need to be happening. By the way how much does a Masters Degree in Engineering cost today from a university ? 

1,000 baht if you ask the right teacher.... my friends son just bought one for graduation!!

I know him well & wouldn't let him change a light bulb??

21 hours ago, yellowboat said:

PHD's with engineering degrees from the west blow things up too.  He should try again as he has learned from his mistakes. 

 When has a Native here ever learned from their mistakes, nor others? Electricity not same your Country Mister 

As I go on my daily adventures, just cant help but wondering how many welding shops, mc repair shops, and so on, burn to the ground, with owners, workers burning also. I would never live in a shop house, where all this dangerous stuff goes on every day. No zoning, no safety, no one cares, no responsibility. These are not accidents, they are crimes.