PHUKET: Workers at a camp in Kathu escaped injury when their two-storey residential building went up in flames this morning (Dec 6). Capt Wattanatorn Bumrongtin of the Kathu Police was notified of the fire, at a workers’ camp in Soi Sikor, near Moo Baan Phuket Hopeland in Moo 6, Kathu (see map below), at 7:10 […]
Firefighters continued to tackle a huge fire at a recycled paper factory in Samut Prakan into the early hours of Thursday after flames destroyed three warehouses. Initially, some 100 fire engines were dispatched to the Thai Development Industrial Paper Co Ltd in Tambon Thay Ban in Muang district at 8pm on Wednesday. Full story: The […]
PHUKET: An Australian yachtsman is safe after his yacht caught on fire off Patong Beach last night (Nov 14). Lt Col Patiwat Yodkhwan of the Patong Police was notified of the fire at 9:07pm. Police arrived at the beach with firefighters and Tourist Police officers to see the yacht burning some 500 metres offshore from […]
CHIANG MAI: A couple and their two-year-old son were burned to death, with the mother still hugging their child, when a fierce fire swept through their house in Muang district shortly before dawn on Tuesday. Seven fire trucks and crews battled the blaze at the two-storey house at Patan housing estate, Chang Phuek district, Pol Col […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Seven tenants were killed and 11 others injured early this morning when a blaze ripped through a three-storey studio complex in Seoul, fire authorities said. While South Korea is technologically advanced and has risen to become the world’s 11th-largest economy, there are many people who have missed out on its progress and […]
SURAT THANI: Fire ripped through a stylish teak wood hotel at Big Buddha beach on Koh Samui late on Thursday night, with damage estimated at 3 million baht. The blaze at the Erawan Villa & Hotel on the Bangrak-Ban Plailaem Road in tambon Bophut began around 9.55pm, according to Bophut police. Full story: Bangkok Post […]
PHUKET: The British skipper on board the yacht that caught fire after a lightning strike and burned to the waterline off Phuket late last Friday afternoon has been handed down a three-month suspended jail term and fined B3,000 for operating a boat in Thai waters without the appropriate license. The news was revealed at Phuket […]
SAMUT PRAKAN: A fire gutted an auto-paint warehouse in Bang Bo district around dawn on Wednesday, causing at least 4 million baht in damage. No casualties were reported. The fire at one of the warehouses of Siam Luck Trading Co in tambon Bang Phriang was reported about 5.30am, said Pol Lt col Somchai Sakhon, investigation […]
