Fire Engulfs Iconic “Ship Hotel” on Koh Chang: Emergency Teams Struggle to Contain Blaze

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The articles state that it was built in 1992 and opened in 2004. Was it cruising the Seven Seas in between.

Here's a useful tip: A successful method of welding wood has not been found.😋

[outsider]

Don't think it's insurance scam, but perhaps the place is needed for something else, so it's cheaper to burn it down than to dismantle/scuttle/demolish the structure. 

Edited 14 hours ago by outsider

[impulse]

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

Looking at those hoses they should be at least 2 inches in diameter and fire fire pump  should be pumping at around 150 psi or 10.3 bar.

 

The problem with that is that you would need at least 3 and probably 4 Thai firemen at the nozzle end just to hold it. The fire truck look as though it has a 5,000 litre water tank which would be empty in 3 of 4 minutes.

 

Nothing hinky about that photo, especially if it was taken in the beginning stages of the fire fight.  When I was in the VFD, we used a hose reel mounted on a faster truck to do what we could while waiting the few minutes it takes (or longer) for the slower pumpers to find and connect to the hydrants, lay out the big hoses, engage the PTO and start pumping the big water.  All that takes time, when people may be dying.

 

The guys in the photo may not have even gotten water yet, or they may be moving from one location to another.  (Or, as sometimes happened in our dilapidated resort area of New Jersey, the local authorities decided to let the abandoned bungalows burn to the ground instead of risking our lives for a lost cause.  We were just there to make sure it didn't spread to other structures.)

 

Edit:  I'd add that the big advantage of the red hose is that it's not collapsible, so there's no chance that it'll kink up and stop flowing when you take it around a corner.  And it's almost impossible to cut.  So it was the gear we used to enter structures, not the quintessential white hose you see in the movies.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by impulse