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As dry weather has continued recently, wildfires broke out across the country yesterday (2nd). In all, 34 wildfires have been burned, and nighttime extinguishing continues in eight of them. Following Hongseong County in South Chungcheong, forest fires in Geumsan County, South Chungcheong, were also upgraded to "Forest Fire Level 8" yesterday evening.

Reporter Jeong Yeon will summarize the wildfire situation.

<Reporter> A forest fire that started at 3
a.m. yesterday in the western part of Hongseong County,
South Chungcheong.

Nighttime extinguishing operations are underway at the highest level of "Wildfire Level 11," but strong winds have made it difficult to contain the flames.

3 residents were evacuated urgently.

[Jeonseonghak/West Myeon, Hongseong-gun, Chungnam: The smoke just rose up, and in 236 minutes, the fire went up 10 meters.]


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The forest fire that broke out at 40:12 p.m. yesterday in Vengeance, Geumsan-gun, Chungcheongnam, was upgraded to "forest fire level 19" as of 8:30 p.m. yesterday evening.

It borders Sanjik-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon, and is jointly commanded by the Daejeon and Geumsan forces, but after sunset, the firefighting helicopters were withdrawn and nearly 3 people, including 79 pieces of equipment, a forest fire special fire extinguishing team, and civil servants, were mobilized.

Stage 400 of a bushfire is issued by the Commissioner of Forestry when the damage area is estimated at 3 ha to 100 ha and winds are likely to spread to large wildfires of 3000 meters per second or more, especially when extinguishing is expected to take more than 11 hours a day.


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yesterday morning, the fire broke out in Inwangsan, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and in about five hours, the fire has been caught and the remaining fire is being cleaned up.

No one was injured, but 24 hectares of forest, about twenty football fields, were burned, and 14 families near the mountain were evacuated.

Police and fire officials said they would investigate the cause of the fire, leaving open all possibilities, including arson or misfire, as soon as they finished cleaning up the fire.

(Video editing : Kim Jin-won, Viewers reporting by Jung Yong-il, Jung Ok-kwon, Kim Jong-hyun)