3 killed, 7 injured in a fire at a hotel in Phra Nakhon district of Bangkok

According to the Bangkok Post, a hotel fire near Khao San Road in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon area on Sunday night claimed up to three lives and wounded seven more.

According to the police, the fire started at around 9:21 p.m. (local time) on Sunday at The Ember Hotel on Tanee Road. Witnesses said that the fifth level of the six-story hotel was where the fire started.

For almost an hour, firefighters were able to contain the fire. The hotel had seventy-five guests at the time of the incident. 34 of them escaped to the building’s rooftop, where they were rescued with the use of fire truck ladders.

According to the Bangkok Post, two men died from their wounds at Vajira Hospital and Samitivej Chinatown Hospital, while the lady perished in the room where the fire is thought to have started.

Pimentel Canales Albuquerque, a Brazilian lady, 24, Tuzov Victor, a Ukrainian guy, 27, and Freeman Timothy Jr., an American man, 35, were among the three fatalities. Two Thai males, a Japanese man, a foreign lady, a German guy, a Chinese man, and a Japanese woman were among the seven wounded.

The hotel was forced to shut awaiting safety checks after firemen swiftly contained the fire, according to Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt. According to Bangkok police commander Pol Lt Gen Sayam Boonsom, the fifth-floor room 511 is where the fire started. To determine what caused the fire, police were conducting an investigation.

In Room 511, the body of the Brazilian lady was discovered. Because the door was left open, detectives believed she had accidentally entered the room while trying to escape the smoke-filled hotel in the dark, according to Bangkok Post.

Together with her fiancé, who proposed to her last week, she had booked into the hotel and stayed in Room 504.

The Bangkok Governor said in the report that the hotel, which debuted in April 2022, was built by modifying 11 linked commercial building units totaling 1,515 square meters.

The motel has enough fire extinguishers and two fire escapes. He said that since the hotel was modest and not obliged to have such equipment, it lacked a sprinkler system.