Many people witnessed a fire that caught on cable wires on Soi Buakhao 15 in Pattaya around 3 PM today, October 19th.

 

The flames broke out after an excavator that was working on a drainage project on Soi Buakhao 15 got its arm entangled with the wires above it by accident, an eyewitness told The Pattaya News.

 

Tourists and residents fled the scene immediately, and there are no reports of injuries so far after the fire was put out by Pattaya firefighters. However, five cars that were parked near the fire were damaged including a black Toyota Yaris, a white Honda HRV, a bronze Toyota Yaris, a black Toyota Altis, and a white Honda Civic.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/10/19/fire-alarms-tourists-in-pattaya-after-excavator-gets-entangled-with-wires/

 

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39 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

five cars that were parked near the fire were damaged including a black Toyota Yaris, a white Honda HRV, a bronze Toyota Yaris, a black Toyota Altis, and a white Honda Civic.

Explain please... That are 10 cars 5 damaged and the other 5 too???

Before reading here I saw a video about it and thought whether this is from today. And it is.

Amidst the endless construction nightmare on Soi 15.

People running probably to get their vehicles away.

 

 

Edited October 19, 20223 yr by KhunBENQ

A guy with a little handheld extinguisher walking to that wall of flames ????

The will was there.

Edited October 19, 20223 yr by KhunBENQ

33 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Explain please... That are 10 cars 5 damaged and the other 5 too???

1) black Toyota Yaris

2) white Honda HRV

3) bronze Toyota Yaris

4) black Toyota Altis

5) white Honda Civic.

 

Is "including" wrong English (not my first language).

Edited October 19, 20223 yr by KhunBENQ

10 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Explain please... That are 10 cars 5 damaged and the other 5 too???

I really do not see what you fail to understand... 5 cars were damaged!

9 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

A guy with a little handheld extinguisher walking to that wall of flames ????

The will was there.

The one with a small bucket of water was optimistic I thought.... more trees gone forever!

11 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

A guy with a little handheld extinguisher walking to that wall of flames ????

The will was there.

Shame either the extinguisher didn't work or the people didn't know how to operate, probably the extinguisher was out of date

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I really do not see what you fail to understand... 5 cars were damaged!

in·clud·ing
/inˈklo͞odiNG/
preposition
containing as part of the whole being considered.
"languages including Welsh, Cornish, and Breton

 

Why a list of the 5 cars than? if there are 5 cars damaged including the 5 cars named, makes for me 10...or erase including and just say the 5 cars were.......

3 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

in·clud·ing
/inˈklo͞odiNG/
preposition
containing as part of the whole being considered.
"languages including Welsh, Cornish, and Breton

 

Why a list of the 5 cars than? if there are 5 cars damaged including the 5 cars named, makes for me 10...or erase including and just say the 5 cars were.......

For me 'including' certainly does not make it ten, 'excluding' would have been used surely. Amusing they felt the need to tell us what types of vehicles they were, moreso if a few Hi-So vehicles had been among them!

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The flames broke out after an excavator that was working on a drainage project on Soi Buakhao 15 got its arm entangled with the wires above it by accident,

ooops

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

in·clud·ing
/inˈklo͞odiNG/
preposition
containing as part of the whole being considered.
"languages including Welsh, Cornish, and Breton

 

Why a list of the 5 cars than? if there are 5 cars damaged including the 5 cars named, makes for me 10...or erase including and just say the 5 cars were.......

Every set includes a subset of itself. 

Group of five parked cars includes a subset of itself.

SMH

Good riddens to that frightful tangle of lines.

The report cites an accident as the cause of the blaze when infact it is gross negligence on the part of the digger driver.

41 minutes ago, champers said:

The report cites an accident as the cause of the blaze when infact it is gross negligence on the part of the digger driver.

Reverse gear was instantaneous when he realised what he,d done LOL

15 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

A guy with a little handheld extinguisher walking to that wall of flames ????

The will was there.

Owing to the lack of the Fire Service in attendance in any numbers he was a real hero..........40 minutes from the fire breaking out the second much larger Fire engine turned up...the police were there in numbers taking pics only (must have Tik Tok accounts) so it was left to individuals to do what they could....apart from the first ten minutes I watched the whole thing.

4 minutes ago, petermik said:

Owing to the lack of the Fire Service in attendance in any numbers

And the fire station is a 2 min drive around the corner next to Pattaya City hospital 

Edited October 20, 20223 yr by KhunBENQ

That's what I can't understand. I don't know what time it started but from the time the video played it was over 10 minutes.That is scandalous considering the distance from the fire station to Soi 15. Or was it change of watches or maybe lunch.

Does Soi Bukakke have a high Japanese population?

Good thing Thailand has these protected jobs that are so highly skilled that it's impossible that a foreigner could do anywhere near as good a job.

14 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Does Soi Bukakke have a high Japanese population?

Dunno, where is it?

21 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

 

Why a list of the 5 cars than? if there are 5 cars damaged including the 5 cars named, makes for me 10...or erase including and just say the 5 cars were.......

It seems common in Thai reporting to incorrectly say "including" then list every item. They really should use a phrase such as "consisting of" instead.

 

I don't see how you managed to jump to the conclusion that just because the "including" list was full, there must have also been 5 other cars, though.