The Santika Club, which became a deadly inferno in the first hour of Jan 1, was a deathtrap due to hazardous materials inside and a lack of safety equipment.
The building safety sub-committee of the Engineering Institute of Thailand, made the assessment after inspecting the debris of Santika on Soi Ekamai yesterday with crime scene investigators and public works officials from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
The pub lacked basic equipment to deal with a fire, including emergency lamps, fire exit signs and sprinklers.
The three exits for its area of about 400 square metres were insufficient to deal with 400 guests.
Had it had sufficient sprinklers, emergency lights and more prominent fire exit signs, revellers could have escaped and survived the fire.
The main gate of the pub was 2.18 metres wide.
In case of fire, the door would be adequate for just 200 people to escape.
There were a large number of highly inflammable materials in the pub such as fibreglass, resin and plastic.
The pub's walls were lined with polystyrene.
When the material caught fire, it emitted toxic gases that caused victims to pass out.
Carbon monoxide, which was a toxic gas, was the main cause of deaths in the pub fire. The gas replaces oxygen in blood, so many victims died when their brains were deprived of oxygen.
It would be easier to treat burnt skin than to treat people who inhaled toxic gases.
In the first week after the blaze, the clogged alveoli of their contaminated lungs could swell up causing acute respiratory failure.
The death toll from the Santika pub fire reached 64 as Japanese victim Keiichi Wada died on Sunday night. Of the 68 injured, 35 remained in ICUs yesterday.
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