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Home » Thailand in general » Tourists killed in fire at disco Phuket
Tourists killed in fire at disco Phuket
Four people died in a fire at Tiger bar and nightclub on Bangla Road in Patong (Phuket). At least 20 people were injured, some seriously.
According to the deputy governor of Phuket, the dead were so badly burned that they are unrecognizable. A hospital employee says that even the gender cannot be determined. "We think they are foreign tourists," said the deputy governor.
Lightning strike
The injured are both ภาษาไทย as tourists. Two of them, including a Frenchman, have been admitted in critical condition. The fire is believed to have started after a lightning strike. A transformer would have been hit, after which the fire quickly spread.
Tiger disco
The Tiger Disco is known as a popular nightlife spot for foreign tourists in Patong. The building consists of two floors, with bars on the ground floor and a large discotheque on the top floor, which was completely destroyed by the fire.
The umpteenth fire with unfortunately more deaths. Do the fire brigade check escape routes, emergency doors in Thailand? Or if one has money one can go ahead with unfortunately catastrophic consequences?
What do you think? Gringo has already written about it: https://www.thailandblog.nl/dagelijks-leven-in-thailand/brandpreventie-thailand/
Thanks Khun Peter, just read Gringo's piece. I never really paid attention when I was in Thailand to be honest, but Gringo's last bit about Lucifer tells me what I wanted to know. Nice if you, as the person responsible, have all those deaths on your conscience.
It must have been the transformer. Two months ago, a transformer on Beachroad, just around the corner from Bangla, crackled for a whole week. No one who cared. I myself have already seen a cable snap from a transformer twice (Karon and Nongkhai) so I quickened my pace when I passed. It's a shame that there had to be more deaths.
Been away from patong for a while but is this the old shark?
Just google it and you'll know.
http://www.phuketlist.com/guide/phuket_tiger_disco
Indeed, according to various newspapers, it was indeed a lightning strike in a transformer that caused the fire, so it was already known.
Regards,
Lex K.
First of all, terrible for the people who died and were injured. And it's a pity that this nightclub has burned to the ground. Nice memories there 🙂
Shame? Feel more sorry for those dead to be honest. But the owner is not to blame, so open a new one…..and think of the owner's safety.
How far does this still have to go in Thailand, you hear it again and again. And Ruud, that transformer is still crackling, you just don't understand it.
Glad I just got back to the Netherlands, as this was one of my favorite bars.
Vespers.
Those who have been there know that this is no small disco.
It is the largest disco in Patong.
Although every death is one too many, I have to say that, given the size of this disco, 4 deaths is not too bad for total destruction.
It is not surprising and sad that this has happened in Phuket or elsewhere in Thailand or any other country where safety or in this case fire safety is subject to legal rules, but are hardly monitored and in a country where income differences are so great that money ( corruption) can buy off risks. I doubt (no knowledge) that even small and larger hotels/clubs receive a periodic inspection from a government agency after completion. If the emergency exits are approved and the necessary fire extinguishers are present, the next step is management. If no maintenance/management and control is carried out in the field of safety, everything is a false sense of safety that could not be checked with a personal visual inspection or whether or not fire extinguishers are present. Fire extinguishers should be checked for reliability every year, anything other than that is minimally unsafe. In other words, every public place we visit in Thailand or comparable countries under control and management with regard to safety are risk countries in that regard. For example, I have my doubts whether reputable travel organizations check a hotel for safety and management and control and how they could possibly do that, which in my opinion is a responsibility of a travel provider. Safety is checked randomly for products sold in the EU. I know this is out of topic, but it is part of the entire problem regarding safety.
I am a fire safety specialist.
Most Thai institutions/companies/hotels don't give a damn about fire safety. I have had several conversations about fire safety, but everything is too expensive. People do not believe in preventive matters, just as there is no insurance.
The result is that in the event of a fire in a Thai hotel, disco or whatever, the casualties are unreasonably high.
So realize very well that a visit to a disco in Thailand could possibly be your last.
PS. It really wasn't the transformer.
Then I'm very curious what it was...
According to my contacts in Phuket, it looked like a small bomb went off just before.
Vespers.
It is good everywhere, but especially in Thailand, to use your common sense. Check escape routes in hotels or take a room on the ground floor. Avoid places crowded with people. Don't sit under a wall-mounted TV or speaker in a bar. You don't have to be paranoid about that. It just has to become second nature.
For fatalists, of course, it's simple. When your time has come, you go anyway and that fatalism is well represented in Thailand. Perhaps this plays a role in the lack of interest in prevention.
Sad event, the fire must have spread very quickly.
Visited this club several times a few years ago, looked inside
always well taken care of. Only the entrance at the top of the stairs may have been a bottleneck. Furthermore, it is a large, fairly easily accessible disco.
Do remember that the toilets with masseurs were all the way in the back and I never paid attention to emergency exits.
Has anyone ever been to The Club on Khao San Road? I really always wonder how to get out of there in the event of a fire. Given the long narrow entrance. Within an open space up to the roof with separate spaces around it,
I've wanted to buy a fire extinguisher for a while and did so yesterday.
I saw CO2 extinguishers hanging everywhere in Homepro and wanted to buy one. After a lot of calling and hassle from the sellers, the expert arrived and he put an N2 powder extinguisher on me, so filled with nitrogen. I had clearly told him that I would rather not have a powder extinguisher, but that it contains powder, it is only written in Thai.
According to the seller, the nitrogen extinguisher was the same as the CO2 extinguisher. He probably didn't know that it also contains powder.
They also sold water extinguishers, a fire extinguisher that is environmentally friendly by spraying water. You can also use this on oil / fat burning according to the instructions! I think it's dangerous, but I'm no expert.
So now I have a nitrogen extinguisher. According to the instructions on the extinguisher, you first pull out the pin, then point the hose at the source of the fire (This extinguisher has no hose at all) and you can therefore extinguish.
So I'm going to return it today but I'm very disappointed in the advice of the Homepro expert.
It's soooo Thai again as the Phillipino's would say. In other words, sooo stupid.
So now I'm looking for a shop where they can give me good advice and sell a good fire extinguisher. Does anyone know where to find one in Bkk?
Hans, search in google for fire extinguisher and what you want to use it for (which is not to be hoped); they have the right device at Homepro. If you still have doubts after this, look for different types at Homepro and view the sites of the brands of fire extinguishers, in Dutch or English, so easy to understand.
Ok… you have to do something yourself, but you will undoubtedly also receive the best advice.
Don't the Thai fire extinguishers have a fire class cable (A - F)? Then you immediately know what you can and must not do with it. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandblusser
Water on burning liquids (grease, petrol, etc.)? That's only a good idea if you want to reincarnate quickly!
I returned the fire extinguisher to Homepro and received my money back.
That the extinguisher would spray powder is only written in Thai (according to my wife) and I don't want a powder extinguisher because then you can spend days cleaning.
The instructions on the extinguisher were also incorrect:
step 1: pull out the pin.
step 2: aim the hose at the fire.
The extinguisher had no hose at all! I had seen that when I bought it, but according to the seller, this Nitrogen extinguisher was exactly the same as a CO2 extinguisher ... but CO2 extinguishers have no powder at all, so that's why I returned it.
I have now ordered a real CO2 extinguisher from another Thai store, it costs 2500 baht and my wife declares me crazy to want to buy that expensive thing.