Firefighters move in to extinguish the final
embers after smoking in bed caused a fire that destroyed a house in
Sattahip.
Patcharapol Panrak
Smoking in bed is being blamed for a fire that destroyed a house in
Sattahip’s 100-Year Market neighborhood.
Firefighters took 10 minutes to extinguish the blaze that gutted the
single-story, wooden house on Soi Namcharoen 15 around 1:30 a.m. April 5. No
one was reported as being injured.
Owner Charoensuk Phladma, 34, told authorities he had put a lit cigarette in
an ashtray next to his bed, then had fallen asleep. The next thing he
remembered was being hit by flames as it engulfed his coconut fiber-filled
mattress.
