<Anchor>



As you heard, around 11 am, the fire was extinguished in 20 minutes, but 7 people died during that time.

The office where the fire broke out was on the second floor, but the windows did not open, and there were no firefighting facilities in the building. 



Reporter Hong Seung-yeon covered the reason for the great damage.



<Reporter>



It was confirmed that there were five offices on the second floor of the building where the fire broke out.



All the dead were found in one office in Room 203, including five men and two women, including an arson suspect.



The office had only one entrance, and the distance between the stairs and the elevator was the greatest, so the damage was greatest.



Police believe the arson suspect locked the door and set a fire at the entrance.



There was a glass window on the other side of the door, but it was a built-in window that did not open.



[Building official: You must come out of the hallway.

You can only get out of here by going out the passage.]



Another office on the second floor also had small windows, so it was difficult for people inside the building to escape even after breaking the glass.



[Lee Hyun-woo / 2nd floor worker: I see you tearing the window.

came out over there

three people.

I was holding a hammer.

I pushed and knocked, so I tore off a door.]



The fire continued to spread while the fire was extinguished, and thick smoke quickly spread throughout the building.



This is a five-story building that caught fire.



It was confirmed that this building was built in 1995 and no sprinklers were installed on the first to fifth floors except for the basement floor.



It was also omitted from the target of installing fire shutters.



In addition, it is known that the building, which is a business facility, is subject to self-inspection, not the fire department, and as a result of safety inspections by a private company for the past two years, it is known that there is no abnormality.



The fire department said that immediately after the fire, the emergency bell worked normally, and it will be investigated through an on-site inspection to see if the emergency passage in the building has been properly secured.



(Video editing: Kim Jun-hee, CG: Seo Dong-min)