Thread: Central World Fire - sorry for linking the express

Originally Posted by Norton

Tongue in cheek. Likely an electrical fire.

Or a badly burnt pizza. Hope tomcat's is OK.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Nothing really on the news in the UK but headlines suggest 3 dead and 7 injured

Local TV reporting same.

Central World shopping center now safe

BANGKOK, 12 April 2019 (NNT) - Central World shopping center in Pathumwan district of Bangkok has been inspected following Wednesday’s fire by officials of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Office of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and Office of Public Works as well as the Engineering Institute of Thailand and police from the Forensic Science Division. The authorities revealed that hot smoke had come from a basement room running up the air ducts into the eighth floor.


Phichaya Chantharanuwat, the secretary general of the Engineering Institute of Thailand, said the inspection has found out that hot smoke had arisen from the fire fighting pump room in the B2 basement ground and run up the vertical air ducts to the eighth floor of the building and spread throughout the floor.


Thirayut Phumisak, the deputy director of the BMA’s Office of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation the hot smoke found no exit from inside the building and become a huge blaze with a temperature of 700 to 800 degrees celcius, bursting the air ducts, blocking the exit to the fire ladders and spreading in all directions on the eighth floor.


Sirivat Chaichana, the secretary general of the Engineering Institute of Thailand, said blackish stains of smoke were spotted on some part of the air duct channel but assured that the building’s structures remain in strengthened condition. The institute has called for the design plats of the building to see if they have been laid as legally required.


Central World shopping center is reopening on Friday following the inspections by the authorities. The owners of about 3,000 automobiles which had remained in the building’s parking lot may register to retrieve their vehicles or have them washed free of charge. Central Pattana Co., the owner of the shopping center, has publicly assured the sustained safety of the building in accordance with the international safety standards for fire accidents.


National News Bureau Of Thailand

Free car wash after every deadly fire promo should be adopted for all businesses, IMO.