A cooking-gas fire damaged a car but injured no one in central Pattaya.
Firefighters arrived at the Nirandon Grand Condotel on Soi Arunothai Aug. 31 to find a Bangkok-registered Toyota Camry in flames and its driver, Pongsak Ketboonnak, nearly in tears. He had borrowed the million-baht vehicle from a friend.
The fire started, witnesses said, after Lawetch Suntornsin, a chef at a pad tai restaurant, fired up the stove out in front of the restaurant after bringing in two new gas tanks. However, a hose connecting one tank leaked, causing a fire that spread to the car, which was parked very close to the stove.
Pongsak contacted his car-owner friend and told him to contact his insurance company, but both driver and restaurant owner were still discussing compensation.
Luckily no one was hurt when a cooking-gas fire damaged this Camry parked out front of the restaurant.
