Sawang Boriboon Foundation personnel and Nongprue district fire department rushed to a house in Pattaya Hill village in Soi Wat Boonsamphan on the 1st of July, at the scene, flames were s engulfing a house and the medics were trying to save the life of a 50 year old man.
The team took about 20 minutes to control the flames however by then the damage had been done to a cost of about 1 million baht.
Firefighters try to contain the blaze.
The house owner said he was trying to switch on the gas tank to cook some food and all of a sudden the flames went out of control and lit other materials in the kitchen, however adding to the incident was a canister of petrol that he kept in the house, which is why the fire spread so rapidly
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Faulty cooker leads to house fire
PMTV