Jonathan Head
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175 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
Jonathan Head’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's quite a substantial building, very typical of the bars you can find thousands of the kind all over Thailand.
It would have been actually filled with tables.
They're usually very crowded.
So from outside this morning, we can see they put some police tape up there.
There have been forensic inspectors going in and out throughout the morning.
There is this awful smell, this acrid smell of burnt plastic.
And you can see some of the furniture that's not been burnt piled up outside.
A few completely melted musical instruments from the band that was on stage that had been left outside.
And all the windows, these very narrow windows, have been shattered probably by the heat.
Apart from that, you don't really get a sense of the horrific scenes that onlookers witnessed when there were incredible jets of flame roaring out through the exits.
making it very hard for people to run out.
And we saw from video taken people racing out with their clothes on fire.
So the fire clearly moved extremely quickly inside, what witnesses say.
The power went out, the room filled with smoke.
It made it very, very difficult in a large space packed with people and furniture to find their way out.
And of course, as we know now, many people did not get out.
Even those who sought safety in a bathroom did not survive.
It's not, and it's indicative of persistent safety issues in Thailand, and that relates to things like road safety as well, building safety, accidents that should be entirely preventable continually happening.
I mean, I covered a fire in a nightclub back in 2009, so 17 years ago, where 66 people died.
It was found that the exits were blocked, there weren't enough of them, and that the ceiling was insulated with incredibly inflammable material that ignited almost instantly.
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