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Fire takes hold on Phi Phi: fortunately precious water supplies were near

Risky Phi Phi Blaze Extinguished With Island's Precious Water

Friday, May 1, 2015
PHUKET: A substantial fire sent smoke curling across the holiday island of Phi Phi today where water is precious and expensive.

The blaze broke out in a restaurant at Moo 7, near the tsunami village.

Drinking water has to be imported to Phi Phi and it's expensive. The laneways are also narrow and, with buildings often close together, a fire could quickly take hold and spread.

Residents of Phi Phi were fortunate though that the Water Hill Factory was opposite the blaze so precious water could be used to quickly extinguish the flames.

An early estimate put the damage caused by the fire at one million baht.

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The fire started in a clothes shop at around 8am. The Tsunami village is about a kilometre away and no water was used from the water hill factory who have their own large reservoir where they make their drinking water from.

Posted by Pp Farang on May 1, 2015 12:18

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In Bangkok in the wooden kampongs (shanty town) they have fire pumps connected to the canals they could do the same with water connections from under the pier

It's a pity though after Tsunami they had a clean drawing board and let it go back to the chaos it was before, if there is ever serious fire especially at night the consequences could be devastating
Its a pity was allowed to get like this though they had a clean drawing board

Posted by Michael on May 1, 2015 17:24


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