<Anchor> On the
night of the 29th, a fire broke out in an apartment in Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do, and hundreds of residents were evacuated. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
Correspondent Han Seong-hee.
<Reporter> A
flame rises outside the apartment's veranda, and black smoke gushes out.
Fire trucks fire water cannons and quickly extinguish the fire.
At around 10:30 last night, a fire broke out in an apartment in Inchang-dong, Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do.
The fire was extinguished in 20 minutes and no one was injured, but hundreds of residents had to be evacuated.
[Apartment resident: The smoke went up to a very high level, and all the residents went out… There were a lot of them.] The
fire department is investigating the cause of the fire.
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apartment complex is dimly lit and only the lights of parked vehicles illuminate the street.
A villager with a fan in one hand heads towards the vehicle.
At around 10 pm last night, the electricity supply to 440 apartments in Daemyeong-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu was cut off.
[Apartment B resident: It's too hot, it's too hot and I'm at home, so my head is too dizzy, so I endured it. Now (the capital) is all cut off... .]
KEPCO has identified a problem with the apartment transformer.
[KEPCO official: Because the transformer itself has been confirmed to be defective, electricity cannot be supplied. There is no way we can get our hands on it right now.]
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loud fire alarm sounds and firefighters enter the smoky store.
Last night around 11:50 a.m., a fire broke out at a restaurant in Munhyeon-dong, Nam-gu, Busan.
The fire burned the store's furniture and caused property damage worth 2 million won.