Bus destroyed in roadside fire - ten staff flee for their lives

 

Image: Thairath

 

RAYONG: -- A bus travelling in the ban Chang area of Rayong burst into flames yesterday as ten employees on their way to work fled just in time.

 

Driver Chainarong Ratmanee, 44, had smelled smoke and stopped, advising everyone to get off the six wheeler, reported Thairath. 

 

It was just in time - fire spread rapidly from the back into the passenger compartment and gutted the vehicle.

 

Fire services took 30 minutes to quell the flames but by this time the bus was a blackened shell.

 

The workers were going to the C Wan company around 7am Thursday along route 337 in the Samnak Thon sub-district.

 

Police and fire investigators are probing the blaze but initial thoughts suggest a faulty compressor was to blame.

 

Source: Thairath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-09-23

 

The alternator and air compressors are run by 'V' belts, seems strange to blame the compressor!

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

It was just in time - fire spread rapidly from the back into the passenger compartment and gutted the vehicle.

 

Made in Thailand bus, by the grace of god the bus was not full of people,

fire retarded material? what's that? not in our country, too expensive, too hard...

1 hour ago, BSJ said:

The alternator and air compressors are run by 'V' belts, seems strange to blame the compressor!

 

I read it to mean those compressing matters between one's ears...

1 hour ago, BSJ said:

The alternator and air compressors are run by 'V' belts, seems strange to blame the compressor!

And those components are in the engine compartment at the rear.....where the fire supposedly started, but I would  guess is the NG bottles may have been leaking..

Again!!  No proper maintenance.  Company Owners should

be help criminally liable for these ongoing near death experiences.

" Driver Chainarong Ratmanee, 44, had smelled smoke and stopped, advising everyone to get off " lucky passengers, the driver didn't flee alone.

Just replace the body and now we have a new bus 

Good call by the driver for once.....

Kudos to the quick thinking driver. I do however not understand how the fire can spread so quickly (as reported).

3 hours ago, Naroge said:

Kudos to the quick thinking driver. I do however not understand how the fire can spread so quickly (as reported).

plastic fantastic

It's endless!