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Yesterday (4th) evening, a forest fire broke out in a mountain near Namhansanseong Fortress, Gyeonggi-do, and was caught within 3 hours.
Residents of apartment complexes close to where the fire started were terrified.
This is Correspondent Han Seong-hee.
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Several fire engines are heading towards the mountain of smoke.
At around 7:40 pm yesterday evening, a fire broke out at Mt. Cheongnyang in Hakam-dong, Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do.
The fire burned 5,000 square meters in about an hour and spread to the north of Namhansanseong Fortress.
I'm in Hakam-dong Mountain, where there is a fire.
Firefighters are putting out the fire by drawing in water, and the fire fighters are raising their fire rakes and scraping the ground to build a line of defense so there are no more burns left.
[Lee Yong-gi / Hanam-si Forest Fire Specialist: Scraping fallen leaves (which can burn) to build a defense line.]
The wind was not strong and the response was quick, so the fire was extinguished in 3 hours and 40 minutes.
[Lim Seong-gyun / Hanam Fire Department Field Response Team Leader: Since we have prevented the burning of the ground surface to some extent, the situation is mainly cleaning up debris.]
Only 80,000 square meters of forest were burned, but no one was injured.
There was no damage to Namhansanseong.
However, residents of the residential areas faced with the burning mountain could not sleep.
[Park Sang-soo / Jumin: I was very anxious.
I can't see it now, but the fire was so big before.] The
fire department and forestry authorities are investigating the cause of the fire, leaving many possibilities open, including arson.