The Lord Buddha must have been in a bad mood this week when candles offered at a home shrine set fire to the shrine and spread to furniture and furnishings causing a major blaze.
Sattahip Police, Fire Rescue Vehicles and a quick response from the electric company - yes they do have a quick response team rushed to the scene a two story house in Moo 2 of Soi Yang Ngam in Sattahip.
Smoke was billowing from the ground floor at the rear of the house. Electricity workers had already turned off the power when fire fighters arrived to take over from the 20 or so neighbours who were attempting to tackle the blaze with buckets of water.
The fire had engulfed the whole room and it took firefighters a while to extinguish the blaze.
Kittipongkosol aged 30 said that he had lit some candles and put them on the home Buddhist Shrine as he dis every day and then took a walk outside not realising the possible consequences. It seams that the initial fire may have been exacerbated by his 84-year-old grandmother's mattress which was located near the shrine.
