Video: Eleven properties destroyed as fire engulfs houses in downtown Chonburi

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Video: Eleven properties destroyed as fire engulfs houses in downtown Chonburi

 

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Dramatic video footage from central Chonburi town showed an inferno that engulfed 11 houses yesterday evening.

 

Pattaya News reported that fire trucks could not get down the soi in the Makham Yong sub-district.

 

Locals spoke of high winds fanning the flames and there were reports of explosions of gas canisters.

 

Pattaya News said the fire started in house number 507/1 and quickly spread to neighboring buildings destroying eleven in all.

 

They said that fire crews had to carry hoses 400 meters to the area of the fire.

 

There were no reports of death or injury in their report.

 

Source: Pattaya News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-06-20

 

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Bed-ridden man, 80, rescued from Chon Buri fire

By The Nation

 

A 80-year-old bed-ridden man was rescued just in time before a fire swept through his house and 10 others at a community in Chon Buri’s Muang district on Tuesday night, police said.
 

Rescuers from the Nithitham Rassamee Foundation managed to move Jook Sukcharoen, 80, before fire engulfed his house at a community on Soi Direk in Tambon Makham Yong.

 

Twenty fire engines were dispatched to the scene after police were alerted about the fire at 7pm.

 

Strong winds made it difficult for the firefighters to control the blaze, which destroyed eight houses and partially damaged three others.

 

Chon Buri Governor Phakkarathorn Thianchai said on Wednesday that the families affected by the fire were given temporary shelter at the public hall in Muang district.

 

He said police were still investigating the cause but it was likely that the blaze was caused by an electrical short circuit.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30348182

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-06-20