elef Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 http://www.nationmultimedia.com/page.news.php3?clid=2&id=105632&usrsess=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 The High Five was the hotel during my first visit to Pattaya. Since then, it ran down (IMO). Luckily, there has not been more injuries (still remembering the blaze in Jomtien). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 I was surprised when I turned on Channel News Asia here in Jakarta to see footage of a Westerner scurrying down a ladder from a hotel in Pattaya - thanks for giving us a few more details, as the news coverage was pretty ordinary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 It seems, the article is gone. For the ones interested, here is it again: 11 injured in Pattaya hotel blaze Published on Dec 25, 2003 Eleven people were injured, one of them seriously, when a fire broke out at a hotel in Chon Buri yesterday, police said. Shortly after 1pm police were alerted to the fire at the High Five Hotel, located on Pattaya Sai Song Road in Bang Lamung district. Witnesses said the blaze began in a storage room on the second floor of the 12-storey, 75-room hotel. More than 100 guests were trapped inside. Some climbed down the outside of the hotel suspended by bed sheets. One foreign tourist was seriously injured after jumping from the third floor. An American guest and three Germans suffered mild injuries. More than 50 tourists trapped on the rooftop were brought to safety by fire-fighters using a cherry-picker ladder. The hotel was fully occupied. Hotel owner Narong Kongsamati, 45, said the property was not insured against fire. Colonel Kamolchai Thienrungroj, superintendent of the Pattaya police station, said an investigation was underway to determine the fire's cause. Pattaya Mayor Pairat Suthithamrongsawat said the hotel had no sprinkler system because it was built in 1989, a few years before the current fire-prevention law became effective. SANTI LAMMANEENIL, THE NATION, PATTAYA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCgringo Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 wonder if they had any smoke alarms, the Grand Inn in BKK that I stayed in last month did not, I got a knock on the door at 6am telling me to leave ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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