Bangkok's bar fire is the city's latest deadly blaze - will anything ever change?

"Even though the fire from these three incidents occurred in different locations, at different times and might have different causes, the pattern was very similar: multiple deaths in a crowded building, the fire spreading rapidly either in the stage area or in the ceiling, thick smoke cutting visibility and preventing people from finding the exits, and people dying from toxic inhalation, not directly from the fire."

— Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai , Academic

"From now we will apply the stricter standards to venues like these."

— Chadchart Sittipunt , Politician