Short circuit suspected as cause of car engine fire in Phuket Town

Darawan Naknakhon

PHUKET: -- Firefighters took about 20 minutes to douse a car engine fire this morning in Phuket Town's Talad Yai sub district.

Phuket City Municipality officials at 8.10am on Sunday (July 31) were alerted that a car was on fire on Tilok Uthit 2 Rd in the area of the Expo shopping complex, and dispatched two fire trucks to the scene.

At the scene, there was a large crowd looking on from a safe distance as flames from out of the engine compartment of a compact blue car with Bangkok plates.

After successfully dousing the fire, investigators spoke with the owner of the car, who was not named.

The man revealed that earlier that morning he, along with his servants, had driven the car from his home on Koh Sireh, to the Kaset fresh market to buy vegetables and other food, and was on his way back when he noticed smoke emerging from the engine compartment, on the driver's side.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/short-circuit-suspected-as-cause-of-car-engine-fire-in-phuket-town-58480.php

-- The Phuket News 2016-08-01

Driving a piece of crud like that AND has servants   Unbelievable  

1 hour ago, monkey4u said:

Driving a piece of crud like that AND has servants   Unbelievable  

Can he not at least call them staff in the day and age - servants is so colonial ... and incorrect.

using water on an electrical (and possibly oil and fuel) fire, no wonder it took 20 minutes to get it under control!

PG story says - "A representative of the fire department at the scene said that the car's owner and his colleagues were heading back to Koh Siray from the nearby Kaset Night Market when the vehicle caught fire. " 

http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Car-bursts-flames-Phuket-Town/65320#ad-image-0

....some limo....

...please don't blame 'the servants'.....

Why'd they take the oil filler cap off? Unless it was already off, and thats what caused the fire - hot oil being spat out onto a toasty exhaust manifold.

Was there a little green sticker on the rear bearing the legend 'LPG' Hole-in-the-wall conversions to older vehicles are popular.

Short circuit suspected as cause of car engine fire in Phuket Town

 

HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT

or maybe he would !