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  • Phuket NewsNature lays on the fireworks, too | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:26, 12 August 2002
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    Nature lays on the fireworks, too

    PHUKET: In Saphan Hin the TAT will be firing off fireworks tonight and, if the clouds clear, Phuket residents will also have an excellent opportunity to watch a natural fireworks display, in the form of a meteor shower in the early hours of tomorrow morning. The meteor shower, an annual event known as the Perseids, is expected to be visible…

  • Phuket NewsOrBorTors to become fire fighters | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:07, 07 August 2002
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    OrBorTors to become fire fighters

    PATONG: In an attempt to improve brush fire control and save money at the same time, Thailand’s Tambon Administration Organizations (OrBorTor) are to be trained to deal with blazes in their areas. The new policy was announced in Phuket today by Sawat Dulyapach, Deputy Director-General of the Royal Forest Department, at the department’s annual seminar. The gathering attracted 148 unit…

  • Phuket NewsVillagers save homes from fire | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 13:15, 22 June 2002
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    Villagers save homes from fire

    PHUKET TOWN: Villagers on the edge of Phuket Town last night successfully fought a fire that threatened their homes. At the height of the blaze, believed to have started when a garbage fire got out of hand, 10-meter-high flames towered above scrubland near Baan Kuku in Tambon Rassada, threatening a small hamlet of half a dozen homes. While firemen worked…

  • Phuket NewsFire razes karaoke bar | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:13, 20 April 2002
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    Fire razes karaoke bar

    PHUKET TOWN: A no-name karaoke bar on Soi Si Sena was gutted by fire last night. No one was hurt. Firefighters at Phuket Town Fire Station received an anonymous call at 7:52 pm from a man who said a house was on fire. Believing that lives were in danger, the station dispatched 20 firefighters and three fire engines to deal…

  • Phuket NewsFire rips through Patong stalls | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:26, 12 March 2001
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    Fire rips through Patong stalls

    PATONG: A fire raged through a collection of vendors’ stalls near Ocean Plaza on Thaweewong Rd early on Saturday morning, causing damage estimated at 20 million baht. Firefighters took about one hour to put out the fire. Pol Col Paween Pongsirin, superintendent of Kathu Police Station, told the Gazette that no one was hurt in the blaze. The forensic science…

  • Phuket NewsFire in Phuket Town | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 09:05, 06 November 2000
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    Fire in Phuket Town

    PHUKET TOWN: A fire on Saturday night caused damage estimated at 500,000 baht to a house on Sakdidet Rd. Four fire engines arrived within 20 minutes of being alerted by a neighbor. About 80% of the house was destroyed by the blaze. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire has not yet been identified, though an electrical short…

  • Phuket NewsHouse burns on Mae Luan Rd | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 07:17, 02 September 2000
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    House burns on Mae Luan Rd

    PHUKET TOWN: Police are investigating the cause of a fire in a house on Mae Luan Rd last night. The case investigator, Pol Capt Surat Moangsri of the Phuket Town Police Station, told the Gazette he was alerted at about 6:30 pm that the house, number 17/27 on Mae Luan Rd, behind the Tessaban Plook Panya School, was on fire.…

  • Phuket NewsFire razes 40 shanty homes in Pathumwan
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:22, 07 February 2000
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    Fire razes 40 shanty homes in Pathumwan

    BANGKOK (Gazette exclusive): Fifty firemen and 30 fire trucks battled for five hours this morning to put out a blaze in a shanty neighborhood behind Wat Pathum Wanararm and the World Trade Center in Pathumwan. Although no deaths or injuries have yet been reported, the fire left 40 homes gutted over an area of about two rai. One witness told…

  • Phuket NewsRefinery fire put out, death toll rises to five | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:26, 04 December 1999
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    Refinery fire put out, death toll rises to five

    SI RACHA (AFP): Thai firefighters yesterday finally put out a fire which had raged at an oil refinery for 35 hours. By that time the death toll had risen to five, with the discovery of more bodies at the site of the initial explosion and subsequent fire. The blaze started after the blast ripped through a storage tank at the…

  • Phuket NewsTwo dead, 15 hurt in refinery explosion | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 04:43, 03 December 1999
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    Two dead, 15 hurt in refinery explosion

    SI RACHA (AFP): A huge fire devoured millions of litres of oil today after a string of explosions ripped through a refinery here, killing two people and injuring 15. Sheets of flame soared 100 meters into the air as hundreds of firemen battled to stop the blaze from engulfing the entire structure run by Thai Oil Co, some 70 kilometers…

  • Phuket NewsYacht Burns And Sinks. Four Missing, Feared Dead | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 04:17, 26 March 1999
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    Yacht Burns And Sinks. Four Missing, Feared Dead

    AO CHALONG: Four people are missing and feared dead after a fire erupted aboard a yacht anchored in Phuket’s Chalong Bay in the early hours of March 25. Phuket Marine Police said the fire broke out just before 1 am aboard the 160-foot motor yacht, which they named as the Catarina. Vessels from the Phuket Marine Police, Harbour Region 5…