Foreigners flee for their lives as fire breaks out at quarantine hotel near Bangkok

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Picture: 77kaoded

 

Around 80 foreign and Thai guests in quarantine before being allowed to formally enter Thailand fled for their lives as fire broke out in an underground storeroom at a hotel.

 

77kaoded did not name the hotel that is situated on King Kaew Road in Bang Plee, Samut Prakan south east of the Thai capital Bangkok.

 

Ten fire engines attended the fire as smoke billowed from an unused snooker club area.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

The situation was brought under control in about 30 minutes after it began around 9 pm last night.

 

Ruam Katanyu rescue foundation staff in PPE cordoned off the guests from other people in an area at the side of the hotel.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

It is thought that a short circuit caused the fire in an area that had not been used for two years due to the pandemic lockdown measures. 

 

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[AwwYesNice1]

Those horrible vaccinated foreigners! 

Edited October 7, 2021 by AwwYesNice1
LOL

[Cake Monster]

Well it looks to me as if the " Underground Storeroom " was being used as a Snooker Club.

Have a welcome sign

Cold Drinks Machine, and a Table under the cover

The only things missing are the Beer Bottles.

[kingkenny]

Siam Mandarina hotel, has a snooker club slightly offset entrance but underneath the hotel. 

[Moonlover]

45 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

Well it looks to me as if the " Underground Storeroom " was being used as a Snooker Club.

Have a welcome sign

Cold Drinks Machine, and a Table under the cover

The only things missing are the Beer Bottles.

Well done Sherlock!

 

57 minutes ago, webfact said:

Ten fire engines attended the fire as smoke billowed from an unused snooker club area.

 

[steven100]

playing snooker and smoking during covid. 

[skorp13]

Just glad no one was injured or killed!

[Rampant Rabbit]

I  hope  all those  johnny  foreigners were arrested for breaking the quarantine rules, then deported/blacklisted etc etc etc

Edited October 7, 2021 by Rampant Rabbit

[inThailand]

Come get quarantined and barbecued! Thailand has it all! 

[RichardColeman]

Have the farang in the photo and video without masks or wearing them wrongly been arrested and charged yet ? 

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

Ah! The old 'short circuit'. Up there with "the brakes failed"....

[NorthernRyland]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

playing snooker and smoking during covid. 

I know what were they thinking. They should have been home under the bed with their masks tightly secured.

[Swampy999]

A fire at a hotel with 7 floors and not an aerial ladder in sight but the freshly red  painted water bowsers arrived and saved the day. 

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Ruam Katanyu rescue foundation staff in PPE cordoned off the guests from other people in an area at the side of the hotel.

Good thinking, don't want guests catching anything from the locals.

[sapson]

4 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Good thinking, don't want guests catching anything from the locals.

Exactly!! the absurdity of it is so annoying, far more covid among the largely untested and minimally vaccinated population than a fully tested and double MRNA vaccinated tourist.

 

Hazmat suits should be donned by medical staff going to their local 7/11 if needed to escort tourists to their 10 day prison.

[Joules]

They'll probably be thrown in jail and fined for unauthorized desertion of their quarantine premises.

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 hours ago, inThailand said:

Come get quarantined and barbecued! Thailand has it all! 

"Fulfill that burning ambition" Thailand 2022  Tats  new  slogan

[10baht]

 "Foreigners flee for their lives..." what? When is this forum going to stop sensationalizing fairly trivial news stories. And pick up the cry to end COE's.

[LetsGoBrandon]

Does this mean quarantine ends early?

[Mario Cosmopolite]

Those are some rough scrubbers!

[Bangkok Barry]

36 minutes ago, Swampy999 said:

A fire at a hotel with 7 floors and not an aerial ladder in sight but the freshly red  painted water bowsers arrived and saved the day. 

Or, they could have used the water cannon that aren't being used at the moment to drown democratic protests. Those that are still operational, that is.

[Bangkok Barry]

22 minutes ago, sapson said:

Exactly!! the absurdity of it is so annoying, far more covid among the largely untested and minimally vaccinated population than a fully tested and double MRNA vaccinated tourist.

Yesterday, my 12 year old nephew was afraid to pose with me for a photo as I'd been to a nearby supermarket and might have Covid. While the fact that he himself had recently travelled 100 kms in a packed van to visit a relative didn't count, as of course he couldn't have caught Covid to give to me. Even at that age he has the Thai mentality of foreigners bad, Thai good.

[ukrules]

2 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

I  hope  all those  johnny  foreigners were arrested for breaking the quarantine rules, then deported/blacklisted etc etc etc

Don't rule anything out.

 

They've got more chance of catching COVID while outside their rooms.

[Dont confuse me]

24 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Yesterday, my 12 year old nephew was afraid to pose with me for a photo as I'd been to a nearby supermarket and might have Covid. While the fact that he himself had recently travelled 100 kms in a packed van to visit a relative didn't count, as of course he couldn't have caught Covid to give to me. Even at that age he has the Thai mentality of foreigners bad, Thai good.

Your absolutely correct, it doesn't matter what I tell my misses, most times  she'll reluctantly go along with me but if a Thai tells her the same thing then its gotta be correct no questions asked.

[transam]

1 hour ago, Swampy999 said:

A fire at a hotel with 7 floors and not an aerial ladder in sight but the freshly red  painted water bowsers arrived and saved the day. 

The problem was in the basement....????

[Greg O]

Jewish lightning but fizzled ..

[Bkktodd]

1 hour ago, LetsGoBrandon said:

Does this mean quarantine ends early?

Actually not.  Technically if you bust quarantine you have to start the whole length of quarantine again.  Hope the hazmat team does not hold the escapees to that. 

[Kongshoej]

Maybe if the news channel bothered to watch the video they would realize that the name of hotel is shown a few times.

Edited October 7, 2021 by Kongshoej

[sawadee1947]

So Bangkok is now in danger because of a lot of non finished quarantine farangs mingeled with ordinary Thai people on the street?????

[richard_smith237]

3 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

So Bangkok is now in danger because of a lot of non finished quarantine farangs mingeled with ordinary Thai people on the street?????

Sheeeshh....  go into full on exaggerated drama queen much ?????

 

 

No...  Bangkok is not in danger because ‘some people who have PCR tested negative’ evacuated a burning hotel...

 

The vast majority of the minimal risk those in Thailand (including Bangkok) face is from the >1000 new daily domestic cases.