At 3 am on the 29th of August Police Leutenant Thanongsak of the Pattaya Police received notification of a fire on soi Day Night South Pattaya.
Police and units of the fire brigade attended the scene which was located on the third floor of a four storey commercial office building housing the Pattaya People Newspaper. Fire officers found an electrical fire and used chemical foam to control the blaze. And then the building was checked to make sure that no one had been injured or killed in the incident.
Witnesses said that they had heard several explosions followed by thick smoke billowing out of the top of the building. They had called staff to evacuate the building and then called in the authorities for immediate assistance. Electricity Board Officials are in the process of investigating this shocking but luckily non fatal incident.
