"flames"

Wednesday morning brought shock and dismay to a 70-year-old Nong Khai resident when her house went up in flames just as she was returning from giving alms to monks.

TOKYO - The Olympics have closed for the night, and the vast brick promenade that stretches between many of the competition venues is empty after 2 a.m. Normally at an Olympics, such a walk would be filled by a never-ending party. Tonight, in this pandemic-wary city, the lone sound is the clumping of a pedestrians feet.

In what is seen as increasing instances of blazes in recent days, a fire was reported at Bangkoks Rajavithi Hospital on Saturday.

A fire broke out at a hotel supply factory in Bangkok Lat Krabang district on Tuesday evening.

LANGKAWI: More than 50 passengers of a Kuala Perlis-bound ferry were rescued when the vessel caught fire minutes after it departed from the Kuah Terminal here Monday (Feb 25).

At least 10 people, mostly Chinese, were wounded during a big fire at an 18floor casino building in the bordertown of Poipet in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchay province late on Monday night.

A parked-up speedboat, which originated in Phuket, caught fire and exploded in Phang Nga Bay on Monday.

Early morning traffic was snarled when a Bangkok bus was destroyed by flames on the busy Sukhumvit Road on Tuesday.

An aged owner of a house in Samut Prakan’s Mueang district lit joss sticks to prepare for bed on Thursday, but her gas lighter instead exploded, causing her house to be engulfed in a blaze.

The memoir of Britain’s first female firefighter is honest, uplifting, exciting and pulses with the music of the 1980s – ‘Baby’s on Fire’, indeed