Fairy Sweet Village in Pattaya catches on fire, again

[Thaiger]

A fire ravaged a Pattaya restaurant this morning. A fire had previously ravaged the restaurant last September when the building was still under construction. Early reports suggest that the fire caused millions of baht in damage. At 10:30 am the Pattaya City Police were alerted to the fire at Fairy Sweet Village. Rescue workers arrived at the scene and beheld the restaurant aflame. It took firefighters around 20 minutes to put out the conflagrant shop. Thai media reports that the restaurant section of the business has been almost completely destroyed. 26 year old Suparawee Pueaksane, who works at the restaurant, […]

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[kerryd]

Located almost at the entrance leading to the Courthouse in Jomtien (or is that still South Pattaya ?).

The Google Street view image dated Oct 2020 shows what appears to be large hunks of foam being used in the construction.
Apparently not the "fire retardant" kind.

[King Cotton]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

Rescue workers arrived at the scene and beheld the restaurant aflame. It took firefighters around 20 minutes to put out the conflagrant shop.

Today’s fire, which missed being on the anniversary of the last fire by a month, only took about 10 minutes longer to put out than this fire.

Reads almost like a John Keats work - 'Ode to Fire' maybe - but, as the report details, this fire both failed to meet the last fire anniversary and took 10 minutes longer to put out . . . still fairly hot news though.

[AlexPTY]

I guess one insurance claim was not enough 

[kerryd]

1 hour ago, Colin said:

Sorry to be picky, but how does "Today’s fire, ...., only took about 10 minutes longer to put out than this fire" make sense ?

Yeah, they probably didn't read it through after typing it up. Probably meant "that fire" instead of "this fire".

[billywillyjones]

Excellent attention to firecodes if they have one.  Another Thai engineering masterpiece only exceeded by the collapsing drainage systems on the roads in Pattaya.

[kerryd]

Fire codes ? In Thailand ?!?!?!

That has been an issue for generations now. Whenever a hotel or nightclub goes up in flames and they find out the fire doors were blocked (and/or locked) and no fire extinguishers or other fire suppression equipment was installed there's an outcry in the media (and the forums) about the lax inspection and fire safety standards.

And nothing is ever done about it afterwards.

It used to be a saying in Pattaya that you should never live above the 7th floor of a condo because that's as high as the fire dept's ladder trucks could reach.

Not sure that's changed much, as I haven't seen any newer trucks around here with the capability of going higher than that. 
(Most of the fire trucks I see look like they were stolen from 1950s movie sets.)

[Chaimai]

4 hours ago, kerryd said:

 

It used to be a saying in Pattaya that you should never live above the 7th floor of a condo because that's as high as the fire dept's ladder trucks could reach.

Not sure that's changed much, as I haven't seen any newer trucks around here with the capability of going higher than that. 
(Most of the fire trucks I see look like they were stolen from 1950s movie sets.)

 

That was certainly true in the Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire in 1997. 

 

91 souls perished in the fire,,,

[Andrew Reeve]

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  9 hours ago, kerryd said:

Yeah, they probably didn't read it through after typing it up. Probably meant "that fire" instead of "this fire".

Indeed. I *am* just being picky, but there seems to be too much content these days from certain Thaiger authors (whose first language is English) that is either poorly written or not checked before it is published. In a couple of recent instances, the omission of the word 'not' has completely altered the sense of the message, which is somewhat unfortunate.

Is the newsroom such a hive of activity that articles cannot be proofed ?  I think we should be told...

 

Hi @Colin, Thank you for your post, your comments have now been passed onto the Thaiger news team.

Regards

Andrew