Officials inspect entertainment venues in Kamala, Phuket to ensure fire safety

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By Goongnang Suksawat

 

Kamala, Phuket – Officials inspected entertainment venues in Kamala over the past weekend to ensure fire safety.

 

A team of Kamala officials inspected entertainment venues in Kamala. They checked fire safety such as fire extinguishers, fire exits, signs, and fire prevention systems inside venues.

 

Full story: https://thephuketexpress.com/2022/08/08/officials-inspect-entertainment-venues-in-kamala-phuket-to-ensure-fire-safety/

 

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[gk10012001]

Inspections are not a guarantee. First one must do proper inspection.  Second, one must fix whatever is broken or missing.  Both a bit suspect when independent agencies that can't be bribed are rare, or if ignorance and not training, or standards, or experience exist. 

 

Station club fire in Rhode Island is a good example.  A comedy of errors which were not funny that led to 100 people getting killed

[EVENKEEL]

What a great money making scheme. Police and fire dept inspecting and finding nothing wrong if envelope is full enough.

[ChrisY1]

Great....officials out on an excursion fund raising....just in case they need to do some real inspections, do any of them have fire safety experience......apart from expired extinguishers...locked back doors??

[JonnyF]

Couple of staged photo ops. Great job. That'll fix it.

[AhFarangJa]

Why is this news worthy. I appreciate there is a certain amount off fallout after the tragedy the other day. However, these people should already be doing checks on a regular basis. 

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

A team of Kamala officials inspected entertainment venues in Kamala. They checked fire safety such as fire extinguishers, fire exits, signs, and fire prevention systems inside venues.

Licenses... thought not?

[Damrongsak]

11 hours ago, gk10012001 said:

Inspections are not a guarantee. First one must do proper inspection.  Second, one must fix whatever is broken or missing.  Both a bit suspect when independent agencies that can't be bribed are rare, or if ignorance and not training, or standards, or experience exist. 

 

Station club fire in Rhode Island is a good example.  A comedy of errors which were not funny that led to 100 people getting killed

This prompted me to do a bit of searching about major fires - theaters, clubs and high-rise apartments.  Despite building codes, inspections and all, it's astounding at how many are due to rule violations and general incompetence.

 

Coconut Grove fire 1942 - 492 deaths,  Iroquois Theatre fire 1903 - 602 deaths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nightclub_fires

 

The Grenfell Tower high rise fire caused quite a stir.  It was found that thousands of buildings had similar flammable cladding and insulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire#Fire_and_structural_safety_reviews