Fire hits shop houses on Koh Phi Phi

[Thaivisa News]

Krabi:- A big fire raged through more than ten shop houses on Koh Phi Phi in Krabi’s Tambon Ao Nang Friday morning, terrifying tourists on the popular island.

No one was injured in the blaze as local people and tourists managed to flee once the fire broke out.

Pol Lt Danai Niyomdecha, an inspector of Phi Phi police station, was alerted of the fire at 8 am.

He rushed to the scene with officials and joined local villagers and tourists to fight the blaze.

Local residents and official of Tambon Ao Nang Administrative Organization used water hosts from the Water Hill tab water factory to fight the blaze. The fire was put under control in about an hour.

The fire broke out at a shop house near the way to the Phi Phi View Point. It destroyed clothes and foods shops and rented rooms.

Danai said the fire might be started by short circuit but scientific crime detection officers have yet to establish the exact cause.

It was the second reported fire of tourist destinations in three days. On Wednesday, a fire raged through the Monkey Bar at the shopping area of Kho Lak beach in Phang Nga’s Takua Pa district.

The fire broke out at 1:30 pm, terrifying tourists who were shopping nearby.

Fire fighters took about 20 minutes to control the blaze.

A worker told police that he saw the blaze at the bar’s roof while he was working on an extension part of the bar behind it. The damage was estimated at more than Bt1 million.

[jackanapes]

it sounds as if its the electrics which appear to be the problem something which is prevalent throughout Thailand .

[MikeN]

Jeez, talk about exaggeration. I was on Phi Phi at the time, it was about 5 or 6 small wooden buildings that burnt down, and it was nowhere near the Viewpoint path either. But it was "lucky" that it happened where it did ...no fire hydrants in the centre of town, only a few low pressure taps.