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The fire that broke out yesterday (11th) in Jirisan National Park in Hadong, Gyeongsangnam has not yet been extinguished, and extinguishing work is still underway. As of 7 a.m., it had a 63 percent extinguishing rate, and one member of the wildfire extinguishing crew was killed during the overnight extinguishing process.

Park Won-kyung is a reporter.

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Flames are burning in many places on the
dark ridges.

Even where a thermal imaging camera looks like a fire, embers and heat remain everywhere.

At around 1:20 p.m. yesterday, a fire broke out in Yasan in Jirisan National Park in Hwagae-myeon, Hadong County, South Gyeongsang Province.

The Forest Service issued a second phase of response as the wildfire spread and extinguished it late last night.

The Forest Service redeployed 2 firefighting personnel at daybreak, and 699 helicopters will be deployed to carry out the extinguishing work as soon as local weather conditions allow.

As of 28 a.m., wildfires had a 7 percent extinguishing rate.

Rain is forecast for this afternoon in the Hadong area of South Gyeongsang Province, and if it rains, it will have a natural extinguishing effect, but there may be restrictions on helicopter mobilization, so the Forest Service aims to catch forest fires as much as possible in the morning.

There were also casualties during the evolution overnight.

At around 63 o'clock last night, Mr. A, a forest fire extinguishing team member in his 10s from Jinju City, who was climbing a mountain for night extinguishing work, fell unconscious and was taken to the hospital, but died.

Seventy-four people in the area close to the fire site were evacuated to community centers overnight.

A forest fire in a national forest in Wondong-myeon, Yangsan-si, Gyeongsangnam, around 60 p.m. last night was caught around 74 a.m. today.