▲ A patient evacuated to the rooftop and a rescue team approaching with a ladder car
Today (10th), the medical staff, patients, and residents who escaped from the fire site of Yoonho 21 Hospital in Goheung-gun, Jeonnam, at dawn explained the situation as'Abi Kyu-hwan'.
Jeong-Seok (38), who ran out of the house when she heard of a fire in a hospital where her family was hospitalized, first noticed about 20 patients who were gathered on the roof when they arrived.
Patients witnessed by Mr. Jung gathered in the corner of the rooftop, avoiding the direction of the noisy smoke coming out of the cracks in the broken window, and shouted'There is someone here' and'Here is someone'.
The face and upper body of the patients who came down one by one on the fire ladder were full of black soot, Jung explained.
Most of the feet and legs were bloody, but a patient told Jung that he was injured by stepping on a piece of glass while wandering in the dark, barefoot, looking for an exit.
A nurse told a reporter who arrived at the scene that he had escaped the crisis with a help from the fire brigade and climbed the stairs to the rooftop with a patient on the 3rd floor ward.
Patients who escaped the hospital building escaped the rain at a simple emergency clinic in the garage of a taxi company next door.
The parking lot of a taxi company where a wounded man in a patient's suit with soot and blood on the floor fell down on the floor was reminiscent of a battlefield field hospital.
According to the degree of injury, the 119 paramedics carried patients to ambulances and distributed them to nearby hospitals such as Suncheon and Boseong.
The patient, who was clearly conscious, explained symptoms to paramedics, police and medical personnel.
The fire is believed to have been triggered by electrical factors on the first floor of the hospital.
Two people died and 28 others were injured in the fire that occurred at 3:42 am and continued for 2 hours and 20 minutes until 6:1.
At the time, there were 86 people in the building, including 69 inpatients, 7 nurses, and 10 caregivers and staff.
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