Pattaya: Hanging cables ablaze outside 7-Eleven - fire crews save houses

 

 

Fire broke out yesterday in Soi Nern Plap Wan, Nong Prue in front of a branch of 7-Eleven.

 

A huge tangle of cables was ablaze. 

 

Firefighters managed to turn off the power and use foam to extinguish the fire before it spread to adjoining houses. 

 

A picture on the 77kaoded site showed officials from various cable companies trying to untangle the mess following the blaze. 

 

Picture: 77 kaoded

 

Source: 77 kaoded

 

 

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Spaghetti junction... they're everywhere here ????

It's no doubt part of the city's CCTV fibre optic cable system that's at fault here.

How very fortunate it will save the need for an in-depth investigation that was mooted last week regarding upgrading the CCTV network.

Installing a new network will guarantee this will never happen again.

 

<For the hard-of-learning: The text above may contain traces of sarcasm>

 

Oh my, how will they ever rehang them wires so fast to restore all services?

That, and other, wiring mess should not be allowed in this day and age...????

and I thought the gf hung up on me when I mentioned no money

 

 

 

Edited August 25, 20205 yr by steven100

2 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Oh my, how will they ever rehang them wires so fast to restore all services?

Good chance if they remove the redundant cables then there might only be 5 or 6 to go back up.

????????

A genuine "Hot line"!!

Love the cable management.

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Good chance if they remove the redundant cables then there might only be 5 or 6 to go back up.

????????

Good luck find which one that are ????

 

Not uncommon , happened over the soi from my nearest 7/11 a month ago .

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

in front of a branch of 7-Eleven.

 

5 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

my nearest 7/11

I think I'm on to something here.

4 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

 

I think I'm on to something here.

Could be that bloody door opening and closing and that bloody chime going off a thousand times a day causing a short ????

5 hours ago, webfact said:

A picture on the 77kaoded site showed officials from various cable companies trying to untangle the mess following the blaze.

Good luck with spaghetti junction.

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Could be that bloody door opening and closing and that bloody chime going off a thousand times a day causing a short ????

and the cashier doesn't even look who enters but just automatically rabbits on about welcome ... bla bla ... they could just have a tape recording .....   lol

 

 

Edited August 25, 20205 yr by steven100

2 hours ago, spiekerjozef said:

Love the cable management.

Ooh, I couldn't manage another one.

Those cable guys actually do a good job of rehanging/reconnecting that bunch of wires.

3 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Could be that bloody door opening and closing and that bloody chime going off a thousand times a day causing a short ????

I wish I could get back in country and hear that sound before too lone.

My son-in-law/daughter visit me periodically.  He is a Health & safety Officer at a UK Company.  He takes hundreds of photos of the cable-tangles to illustrate his How-not-to-do it lectures given to 16 year old apprentices.

I don't see overhead cables or wires in Malaysia and Singapore. Is it too expensive for Thailand to have them wires lay underground?

How deep do you have to dig for cable laying anyone in this business knows?

No doubt a member of the "Beautify Pattaya" team removing the unsightly mess in preparation for burying the cables ????

16 hours ago, jonnit said:

I wish I could get back in country and hear that sound before too lone.

We don't know how much we love the 7 11 door noise till we had to leave the place forever. I'd even be happy living next to an all night karaoke if it meant I was there, instead of here.

On 8/25/2020 at 4:43 PM, Andrew Dwyer said:

Not uncommon , happened over the soi from my nearest 7/11 a month ago .

 

It's called a Tom Jones fire

Is it common??

Well, it's not unusual.

On 8/25/2020 at 12:51 PM, holy cow cm said:

Oh my, how will they ever rehang them wires so fast to restore all services?

Most of them were probably un-used after being replaced. They never take the old ones down.