Big Fire On Sukhumvit 22 Bangkok

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RT @191Thailand: RT @rajenpalsingh: Fire getting worse at Sukhumvit Soi 22. Fire trucks arriving. Hope no one has been badly injured http://twitter.com/r...8876032/photo/1

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RT @191Thailand: 8:55am RT @rajenpalsingh: The fire is a lot worse tho surrounded by fire trucks now http://twitter.com/rajenpalsingh/status/320353720095358976/photo/1

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RT @191Thailand: Black plume of smoke can be seen across Bangkok - RT @js_nueng ไฟไหม้ ภายในซ.เจริญสุขแยก5 http://twitter.com/js_nueng/status/320353249372819456/photo/1

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RT @191Thailand: Fire is on Soi Charoensuk Rama 4 down a narrow alley - RT @FireDept33: รับแจ้งเหตุเพลิงไหม้บ้านในเจริญสุข พระราม 4 เป็นซอยแคบ

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developing story

[Haddo]

pic.twitter.com/dXEM7XRhVp

distant shot from Sukhumvit 33

[bdw]

wow, that's awfully close to where I used to live.

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RT @RichardBarrow: 9:10am Traffic jams on Rama IV & Sukhumwit due to fire on Soi Charoensuk Yaek 5, Sukhumwit 22 /via @191Thailand

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RT @191Thailand: Soi Charoensuk is a dead end road. Many narrow alleys in that area. Fire trucks cannot get close to the fire.

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RT @191Thailand: Picture of the fire on Soi Charoensuk (Pic @Unun2) http://twitter.com/Unun2/status/320360094917328897/photo/1

[Almera]

RT @191Thailand: Soi Charoensuk is a dead end road. Many narrow alleys in that area. Fire trucks cannot get close to the fire.

Well that's handy.

Let's hope everyone was able to get away in time, and perhaps all future buildings will be built where there is access by fire engines.

[retell]

lets hope they can get it under control soon with so many buildings close together

[Engborg]

Is that not bldg with Titanium bar?

Sent with the best of intentions!

[whybother]

Is that not bldg with Titanium bar? Sent with the best of intentions!

No.

Titanium is close to Sukhumvit. The fire is close to Rama 4.

[Ragzilb]

More pictures please

[wealth]

hearing the first copter circling. Any updates? Life coverage? Seems to be a drama developing there.

[SeaVisionBurma]

Several off topic and troll posts have already been deleted.

[AlphMichaels]

Is that not bldg with Titanium bar? Sent with the best of intentions!

No. Titanium is within a block or two of Sukhumvit. This is the narrow Soi that comes down from behind Big C.

[Louisblackbird]

My God I hope they can get help is this now

[anon467367354]

I don't know if it's just me, but I'm seeing a lot of burned down places all over Bangkok lately. Most of these places are shacks and people that sell something on the street and live right behind their "businesses". There is no easier way to have people have to relocate than by destroying their homes. I know it sounds cynical, but I travel Rama III quite a bit and number of fires lately I've been seeing lately is concerning.

[Mampara]

If the fire fighters can not get near, perhaps they should do what they do when fighting forest fires and try and extinguish the fire from the air?

[RadKiter]

Do they have fire fighting equipped helicopters in Thailand? Seems like that would be the ticket.

[MaxLee]

I mean, what exactly happened? A power generator overheating or exploding???

[whybother]

I mean, what exactly happened? A power generator overheating or exploding???

Or someone knocked over a pot of oil on a gas stove?

[Mampara]

They should take steps in removing all the cooking gas cylinders from the aria if the fire spreads out of control these would explode and cause more fires.

[DekDaeng]

I mean, what exactly happened? A power generator overheating or exploding???

Or someone knocked over a pot of oil on a gas stove?

Or Thainese burning paper money for their ancestors on Tomb Sweeping Festival?

[techboy]

RT @191Thailand: Soi Charoensuk is a dead end road. Many narrow alleys in that area. Fire trucks cannot get close to the fire.

Well that's handy.

Let's hope everyone was able to get away in time, and perhaps all future buildings will be built where there is access by fire engines.

A civil engineer are you? Thoroughly reprehensible how quickly someone who knows nothing has come forward to exploit somebody's tragedy with a cheap shot.

Edited April 6, 2013 by techboy

[planetdweller]

RT @191Thailand: Soi Charoensuk is a dead end road. Many narrow alleys in that area. Fire trucks cannot get close to the fire.

Well that's handy.

Let's hope everyone was able to get away in time, and perhaps all future buildings will be built where there is access by fire engines.

A civil engineer are you? Thoroughly reprehensible how quickly some know-nothing has come forward to exploit someone's tragedy with a cheap shot.

Well said

[botti]

I mean, what exactly happened? A power generator overheating or exploding???

Or someone knocked over a pot of oil on a gas stove?

Please read the comment posted by gr8fldanielle who might not be far from the reality.....

[virtualtraveller]

Thida and the reds have already put out a statement deny responsibility ;-)