Patong hotel blaze started by short circuit, say Phuket police

Yutthawat Lekmak

 

 

PHUKET:-- Patong Police have completed their investigation into the fire that broke out at the Beyond Patong Resort on earlier this month and concluded that it was caused by an electrical short circuit.

 

Plumes of heavy smoke bellowed out from the resort from about 7:30pm on Jan 2, forcing firefighters to close the Patong beach road as a precaution.

 

Diners in the restaurant at the front of the resort at the time the fire broke out were safely evacuated from the building.

 

“Our investigation, which included Forensic Police, concluded that the fire was started by an electrical short circuit on the lower level,” Col Witoon Kongsukjai of the Patong Police told The Phuket News today (Jan 16).

 

“We believe the fire started from construction equipment that was left plugged into an electrical socket,” he said.

 

“Thankfully, no one was injured,” he added.

 

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Caused by the well known, sub standard electrical wirering.

Yep, the old short circuit every time; up there with 'the brakes failed'. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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