Thread: Three foreigners die, seven others injured in Bangkok hotel fire

Three foreign nationals died and seven others, including two Thais, were injured in a fire at a hotel in the Phra Nakhon district of Bangkok on Sunday night.


Police say that the identities and nationalities of the deceased are not yet known, while the injured include two German, one Japanese, one Chinese, two Thai nationals and a woman whose nationality is currently unknown because she was unconscious at the time she was rescued from the hotel.


Last night, Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt ordered the hotel temporarily closed and all the guests were moved to another hotel, arranged by the owner of the hotel in which the fire occurred.


Suriyachai Rawiwan, director of the Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, said that the fire originated in a room on the fifth floor, adding that there were 39 guests and hotel staff in the building at the time of the fire.


The governor, who visited the scene last night, said that firefighters responded quickly and managed to get the blaze under control quickly. He said that thick smoke had hampered their efforts to get into the hotel though.


Pol Lt-Col Sayam Boonsom, commissioner of Metropolitan Police, said that they have invited several hotel guests to Chana Songkhram police station to give their accounts of the incident, while forensics officers attempt to determine the cause of the inferno.


According to police reports, one of the three deceased, a woman, died in the hotel, while two male decedents died later in hospital.

Three foreigners die, seven others injured in Bangkok hotel

Holy shxt. The odds that there was some kind of gross negligence involved here is probably pretty high. R. I. P.

That is near Khao San Road, though, of course the exact hotel name is not mentioned!

Originally Posted by qwerty

That is near Khao San Road, though, of course the exact hotel name is not mentioned!

It's the Ember Hotel.

Which is a bit funny.

Citywide check of hotel and entertainment venue fire safety measures

Bangkok City officials are checking fire safety measures at all hotels, malls and entertainment venues in the capital, in an effort to prevent a repeat of the fatal fire in a hotel in the Khao San area on Sunday, which left three foreign nationals dead and seven injured.


Bangkok Permanent Secretary Wantanee Wattana said that officials in all Bangkok’s 50 districts have been ordered to check fire safety measures, such as emergency lighting systems, smoke and fire alarm systems, fire exists and fire extinguishers.


Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt pointed out that the law on fire safety measures for hotels with fewer than 80 rooms is not as tough as that applied to larger hotels.


Meanwhile, Tourism and Sports Permanent Secretary Natthriya Thaweevong said that the families of the three who died will receive compensation of one million baht each, while the seven injured will each receive about 500,000 baht.


One of the survivors of the fire on Sunday, an American identified as Jeffrey Johnson, told Thai PBS that he escaped by running to the rooftop deck, like several other hotel guests.
All were rescued by firefighters. Some guests jumped to the ground floor from their rooms and sustained injuries.


He said that he was shaken after the fire, but has now regained his confidence and will stay in Bangkok to celebrate the New Year.

Citywide check of hotel and entertainment venue fire safety

Love and loss: Brazilian woman dies in Khao San fire after proposal

One of the three people who died in a hotel fire in Bangkok’s Khao San area on Sunday night has been identified as a Brazilian woman, whose boyfriend had just proposed marriage, according to Chana Songkhram police quoting the boyfriend.


The victim, 24-year-old Pimentel Canales Albuquerque, and her boyfriend who was not identified, were staying in room 502 of the hotel, but her body was discovered in room 511, which is thought to be the location of the fire’s origin.


Room 511 was rented by three South Korean tourists, who claim that they were not in the room when the fire broke out and had not left any electrical equipment turned on. Police are curious as to why the Brazilian woman’s body was found in Room 511.


Police questioned the victim’s boyfriend, who claimed that both of them, holding hands, ran out of their room on the fifth floor of the hotel, but they could not find the way out. Then they became separated.


Police think that the Brazilian woman tried to find the exit from the fifth floor by feeling along the walls in the thick smoke, until she arrived at Room 511, the door of which may not have been locked.


She could have entered the room, believing that it would lead to the exit, but was overcome by the smoke.


The other two victims have been identified by police as Ukrainian national Victor Tuzov, 32, and an American, 35-year-old Timothy Freeman.

Love and loss: Brazilian woman dies in Khao San fire after p

Bangkok, Jan. 6 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese woman in her 30s who was seriously injured in a fire at a Bangkok hotel late last month has died, becoming the second Japanese victim of the blaze, according to Thai police.

The woman, who was treated at a hospital but died on Sunday, is believed to have suffocated after inhaling smoke. Local police are investigating the cause of the fire.

When the fire broke out, the woman was in the same room as a Japanese man in his 30s, who died on Wednesday. Three non-Japanese foreigners also died.

The fire is believed to have started around the fifth floor of a six-story hotel near Khao San Road on the night of Dec. 29.

2nd Japanese Dies in Bangkok Hotel Fire - JIJI PRESS