Bangkok bar fire is the city’s latest deadly fire – will anything ever change?

A sudden burst of flames in a crowded bar sends the audience panicking to a narrow exit. Thick, poisonous smoke suffocates them. The dead bodies block those who didn’t escape.

These horrific scenes not only killed 32 people at the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar in Bangkok last Sunday night, but also happened four years ago at another night club called Mountain B in the coastal town of Sattahip.

26 people died in that fire, similar to the recent fire in Bangkok.

Both fires They are similar to the 2009 New Year’s Eve party at Santika Club in Bangkok that killed 67 people.

One of these, after the Mount B fire, was developed by Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai from the Asian Institute of Technology. Now he found himself repeating the same warning.

Although the fires in these three cases may have been in different places, at different times, and for different reasons, the pattern was very similar: many deaths in a crowded building, the fire spread quickly around the stage or on the roof, thick smoke cut visibility and prevented people from finding an exit, and people died from toxic inhalation, not directly from the fire.

He believes the fire may have been started by an electrical fault, and was spread by flammable materials used for soundproofing.

The eerie jets of flame that have been seen shooting out into the street through the entrance can be extinguished by new sources of oxygen once it is opened for people to evacuate.

That intense fire near the door may have forced some patrons to head to the back of the pub, where the two exits were partially blocked and would have been difficult to find after the power went out.

Many of the dead were found there.