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the cold weather again, the air is dry.

A dry warning has been issued for most of the country, and news of fires are continuing.

At dawn today (20th), a fire broke out in a multi-family house in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, and there were large and small wildfires everywhere.



Reporter Baek Woon.



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the building was filled with hazy smoke.



Firefighters, who were conducting a search operation to see if there were no people, came down to rescue the residents.



At around 4:30 this morning, a fire broke out on the first basement floor of a multi-family house with three stories above the ground and one basement in Dongjak-gu, Seoul.



No one was injured, but 11 residents inside the building were evacuated or rescued.



Police and fire departments believe the fire started in the interior office on the first basement floor.



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At around 6 am today, a fire broke out in a 7-story building in Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do.



Two people inside the building were evacuated and there were no injuries, and the fire was extinguished in 1 hour and 50 minutes.



Police and fire departments are investigating the cause of the fire based on eyewitness accounts that the fire started on the 6th floor of the building.



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A dry warning was issued for most of the country today, and wildfires followed.



At around 1:00 in the afternoon, a fire broke out in Gobongsan Mountain in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, and was extinguished in 20 minutes, and at 1:50pm, a fire broke out in Namsan Mountain in Goesan-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, burning 100 square meters of forest and extinguished in 1 hour and 30 minutes.



At around 7:30 am, a forest fire in Dongyong-do, Geoje-si, Gyeongsangnam-do was also extinguished in 13 minutes by a helicopter.



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At around 4:50 pm today, on the national road in Godeok-myeon, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, a van crashed into the median.



Two of the eight people in the van were killed and six were injured in the accident.



(Video editing: Park Ji-in, screen provided by: Seoul Dongjak Fire Station, Gyeonggi Osan Fire Station, Korea Forest Service Central Forest Fire Prevention Headquarters)