Fire In Ramkamhang

[lanny]

The local telephone grapevine has it that there is a big fire burning in Ramkamhang. We've looked on TV but there is nothing -- yet.

Anyone know something about this? Or, is just rumor?

[Plus]

00.14.25? That's midnight. Whatever it is it won't be in tomorrow's newspapers. Fire tracks might not have arrived yet, and news vans, too.

Anyone living in that area can see anything out of their windows?

Any more details? Ramkhamhaeng is a big area.

[Tingnongnoi]

It was around 9pm last night it started I think in soi 57 or 59 there was a huge crowd of people on the footbridge over the main part of Ramkhamhaeng road and big crowd on pavement, you couldn't get into adjoining sois due to large numbers of fire engines, police and rescue vehicles. There was talk of people trapped on higher floors above the fire also. Soi's 57/59 are directly opposite the national stadium.

[Oishi]

The local telephone grapevine has it that there is a big fire burning in Ramkamhang. We've looked on TV but there is nothing -- yet.

Anyone know something about this? Or, is just rumor?

Yes, the local telephone grapevine was right!

From The Nation several hours after.....

100 students escape as big fire burns down boarding house

Published on Jan 29 , 2006

A boarding house for female university students in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district was burnt down in a big fire, sending some 100 tenants to flee for their life, police said.

Five students were injured from inhaling smokes and no one was killed in the big fire which engulfed the four-story building on Soi Ramkhamhaeng 57 at 9:30 pm Saturday night.

Some 20 fire engines took about four hours to control blaze from spreading to other buildings, but by that time the fire had apparently consumed the building.

Police said the fire started on the second floor and quickly spread to other floors as the owner of the buildings had modified the building as boarding house by installing wood walls to make many more rooms for tenants.

Most of the tenants are students of the Ramkhamhaeng University .

Several tenants said they fled by climbing to a nearby building from a rooftop before the fire reached the top.