Bangkok recycling plant gutted in stubborn fire

By The Nation

 

 

A major fire at a Bangkok recycling plant forced the evacuation of residents from an adjacent four-storey apartment building early Wednesday.

 

 

No one was injured in the blaze, which took fire-fighters more than three hours to extinguish. Damage, including to several rooms in the apartment building, was estimated at more than Bt20 million.

 

“We still don’t know how the fire started,” Pol Lt Colonel Adul Thongpetch of Lad Krabang Police Station said.

 

The plant was cordoned off amid concerns it might collapse. 

 

Security guard Chainarong Utaikan said a worker eating at a food shop in front of the plant noticed the fire at about midnight and alerted him, followed immediately by an explosion. 

 

He saw flames in the section of the plant where scrap paper and plastic were stored. 

 

He called the police and more than 30 fire trucks soon appeared on the scene, though the narrowness of the soi barred access to some of the trucks. 

 

Fire-fighters also had to contend with the scrap piled up, delaying efforts to put out the blaze.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30359877

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-12-05

 

 

stubborn? Did you try talking to it?

Hey Expats! Did you read that this was a recycling plant?  I remember seeing some comments

that Thais do not try to do this kind of stuff.  Well!  I am sorry to see this one burning up.

Geezer

On 12/5/2018 at 12:14 PM, webfact said:

“We still don’t know how the fire started,” Pol Lt Colonel Adul Thongpetch of Lad Krabang Police Station said.

Hmmmmm Police Chief, ever heard of spontaneous combustion???  Rotting garbage gives off heat, creates methane, then voila - Bob's your uncle = FIRE.

Edited December 7, 20187 yr by TunnelRat69