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The fire fighting in the east coast continued last night, but it has not caught a big flame yet.
It has already burned the area of about 20,000 soccer fields, making it the second largest fire in the history of the East Coast forest fire in 2000.
More than 7,000 residents have now been evacuated.
First of all, this is reporter Park Chan-beom.
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Firefighters rely on portable lights to extinguish the fire at night.
Sparks are flying in all directions with the wind, and even if the crew tries to stop the spreading flames, it is not enough.
[Wildfire Fighter: Be careful, bro.
Come out!
Come
out!] As of the morning of today (7th), there are 4 wildfires nationwide.
Among them, the forest authorities are focusing on putting out the Uljin-Samcheok wildfire that started on the 4th and the Gangneung-East sea forest fire that just started.
As of last night, about 19,000 firefighting personnel were put into the nighttime firefighting work, and 789 firefighting equipment, including fire engines, were mobilized to the site.
4,659 households and 7,355 people were evacuated from this wildfire.
A total of 492 facilities were damaged by the wildfire.
About 70% of the damaged facilities are houses.
Psychological counseling for the victims was also conducted more than 200 times.
[Ahn Sang-gi / Donghae-si Mukho-dong bankbook: Realistically, these people (victims) are crying and screaming because their homes are like this.
But I can't figure out how to do this.] The
forest authorities plan to focus on capturing the main fire by re-introducing the helicopter from this morning.
[Byeongam Choi / Director of the Korea Forest Service: We will focus on helicopters at dawn.
You just have to defend yourself well until then.]
The KTX Donghae-Gangneung section, which was partially suspended due to a forest fire, will operate normally from today.
(Screen provided: Korea Forest Service)