Fire alarms silent as fire destroys top-floor storeroom at Apex Hotel

[Rimmer]

Fire alarms silent as fire destroys top-floor storeroom at Apex Hotel

PATTAYA:--The fire alarms never sounded when a small blaze broke out at Pattaya’s Apex Hotel, and although many guests were alerted to the fire, some guests were not and remained sleeping until staff began knocking on doors hours later.

Eleven fire units were called to the Second Road budget hotel around 1:30 a.m. March 20 to extinguish flames that engulfed a storage room on the top floor of the seven-story building. Firefighters took about an hour to quell the blaze.

The room was littered with used mattresses, beds, electrical appliances and documents, all of which fed the flames and caused about 300,000 baht damage. An electrical short is being blamed for the fire.

No one was hurt, but some in the hotel never knew their hotel was on fire.
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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-03-28

[Chang_paarp]

Good thing it was a small fire then. Would have been very ugly if it was a bigger fire.

[fakename]

Another fire, where documents are destroyed, and caused by the same electrical short, and in a hotel where the fire alarms dont work! Amazing Thailand

[Pattaya28]

Fire alarms not working.

Now there's a surprise !!

[Greenhill]

Haha!!! Health & Safety in Thailand, an oxymoron, indeed!!!!