<Anchor> In a
residential area designated for redevelopment, fire, 3 people died and 2 people were injured.
Several houses were narrowly attached, causing damage to neighboring families, but it seems that a fire started from an oil stove that was turned on to soothe the cold.
This is G1 Gwak Donghwa reporter.
<Reporter>
Red flames rise into the sky.
A town on the hill was caught in flames in no time.
The fire in the Namsan Redevelopment Area in Wondong, Wonju, was around 3 am.
The fire spread rapidly, skipping over the slates and tiled roofs.
[Neighboring residents: When I woke up, a firework sprang up from here to the sky like this.
.]
Five houses were burned, and the lives of a Filipino grandmother in their 70s who lived in one house and their 9- and 8-year-old grandchildren died.
The Filipino mother of the brother and sister who died barely escaped, and the Korean father was reported to be working in China.
The fire department believes the fire started right next door to the victims.
It is believed that the oil stove that was turned on in the cold was a fire, but the fire caused a neighbor's family to be transformed.
It was difficult to evolve as old houses were hung up on the high ground through narrow alleys.
[Lee Tae-hee/Won Joo Station Field Commander: There is a fire hydrant called an emergency fire hydrant on a high ground. We captured it and blocked the fire (
fire
energy) that spread upwards.] The
fire extinguished in about an hour and a half.
Two injured people are being transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.
(Video coverage: Ha Jung-woo G1)