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fire in a junkyard in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province last Saturday, was extinguished only three days after today (28th). However, residents are worried that the site of this junkyard has been burned 10 times in the past 11 years.

Reporter Lee Hyun-jung covered what happened.

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fire from the junkyard in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do on the 25th was completely extinguished around 7 o'clock this morning, three days later.

It took a long time to remove the embers one by one.


[Lee Yun-il/Nearest residents: Only 80 meters away from the apartment. (When it blows) We open the window and our face is hot, so we can't open the window.] The

junkyard has a recycling company and a fence in between, and the recycling company has burned nine times in the past 11 years.

The fire was done every year, but most of them seem to have been burned in the process of crushing waste plastics and turning them into fuel.

There are a lot of junk cars piled up behind me right now, all burned down by the fire last weekend, and this place is full of pungent smell, making it difficult to breathe.

But because we're covering it, it was said that all the fires that were on fire, not on the weekend, were from the recycling company next door.

The fires that repeat almost every year raise suspicions that some residents are intentionally arsoning for insurance, but fire officials believe it is unlikely.

[Park Tae-hyun/Ilsan Fire Station Field Response Director: It is such an environment that a fire may be caused by a spark being thrown on the blade (which crushes waste). Fires are actually common in waste companies.]

Mr. A, who runs a junkyard and a recycling company together, is also suspicious.

[Corporate Representative: I am sorry for the residents, so I want to move now. But it is not going to be necessary to create conditions.]

Experts suspect that the company's fire prevention management has been neglected despite the use of shattered sparkling machines.

[Hong Soo-Yeol/Director of the Institute for Resource Circulation Socio-Economics: First of all, the structure is vulnerable to fire. If that's led to a large fire very frequently (you can also see.) Did manage a recycling company to thoroughly;

keep the company close to the people on fire, I discussed for the required transfer of the respective companies and spiral, among measures provided Goyang also I started.

(Video coverage: Kim Yong-woo, video editing: So Ji-hye, screen provided: viewers)