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Today (24th), a big fire broke out at the officetel construction site in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do.

The fire helicopter was urgent enough to be put into rescue work, and one worker who tried to escape the flames died.



Reporter Park Chan-geun covered it.



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Red flames soar from the lower floors of the building, and black smoke rises over the entire building.



Firefighters keep spraying water with hoses, but the flames are not easily caught.




At around 11:20 am today, a big fire broke out at the construction site of an officetel in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do, after 2 hours and 10 minutes.



[Kim Hee-suk/Neighborhood Residents: No, suddenly there were three or four sounds of'Pop Pop', and then immediately (there was a fire.) I just popped out with a bag.]



It was determined that the fire started at the work site on the second floor above the ground

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There are a lot of vehicles on site, such as construction materials, so it took a long time to completely catch the flames.



At the time of the fire, there were 60 workers working in the building. Some workers saw the first fire on the second floor here, and they first took shelter on the rooftop and were rescued by fire helicopters that arrived one after another.



However, a 64-year-old man, who was working close to the start of the fire, fell from a height of 15 meters while trying to avoid the fire that suddenly spread and eventually died.



Seventeen other workers were injured, such as breathing smoke, but it is said that life was not affected.



[Shin Hyo-seop/Namyang District Office Disaster Response Section Manager: It is confirmed that the process for each floor was probably in the process of working. Among them, it is presumed that it was ignited while working on an air conditioner on the second floor.]



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same time, a fire at a mattress manufacturing plant in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, went out in 5 hours and 10 minutes.



At the time of the fire, no one was injured because no one was in the building.



[Ayoung Seo/Witness: There is a factory complex over there, and there was a huge fire there. The flames were enormous and black smoke almost covered the area.] The



fire department is planning to investigate the cause of the fire based on witness statements, etc.



(Video coverage: Jang Woon-seok, video editing: So Ji-hye, CG: Seo Seung-hyun)