Employees learn how to extinguish fires
during training at Central Festival Pattaya Beach.
Warunya Thongrod
Central Festival Pattaya Beach employees practiced how to fight small
fires and escape bigger ones during an emergency-preparedness drill at the
beachfront mall.
Pattaya City Councilmen Rattanachai Sutidechanai and Ithiwat Wattanasartsathorn
joined mall manager Mongkol Sirilak and local fire police for the Sept. 13
drill. Safety Department officer Anan Rathana quizzed the 300 participants
orally on procedures and led practical demonstrations and tests.
Attendees were educated on the common sources of fires and how to use fire
extinguishers. Preventative measures, such as how to use cooking gas safely, and
first aid were also covered. Practical exercises covered extinguishing gas,
cooking oil and electrical fires with extinguishers.
The group also spent time covering evacuation procedures and routes, and
practicing getting crowds out of the busy mall.
Central Festival organizes four training sessions a year due to its belief in
the importance of safety. The training and practice session has been organized
for the benefit of employees who would be faced with protecting shoppers.
