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At dawn today (the 4th), three large fishing boats moored in a port in Jeju caught a big fire.
Evolution was not easy.
Reporter Dong-eun Kim of JIBS covered it.
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Black smoke fills the sky, and a huge flame rises terrifyingly.
The oil spilled from the fishing boat caught fire, and the fire broke out again five hours after the first inspection was completed.
A large fire engine working nearby was also burned down by the strong flames.
The fire broke out on the fishing boat around 4:30 this morning.
With nine fishing boats anchored one after another, a fire started in the middle and continued to spread.
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[Kim Byung-soo / Jeju Eastern Fire Station Command Team Leader: Since the material is made of FRP these days, the combustion rapidly expands, and if the ship is tied up, the combustion continues to expand to the adjacent ship...
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At that time, there were about 200 fishing boats urgently evacuated to this port due to the news of the typhoon heading north.
The fire department issued the first stage of response and mobilized all personnel and equipment.
Due to the nature of fishing boats, once a fire is ignited, it cannot be extinguished easily, so it was very difficult to extinguish the fire.
As the fire continued to rekindle due to the oil, the fire was barely extinguished in about 12 hours, and fortunately there were no casualties.
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It was found that the three fishing boats that caught fire were large fishing boats weighing around 30 tons, and about 85,000 liters of oil were loaded for fishing after the typhoon evaded.
[Damaged shipowner: Because the price of oil keeps going up.
Since it is a very large ship, it is loaded with a lot of oil and a lot of goods, but the items inside the ship are more damaged.
] Since so many fishing boats have been destroyed, it is expected that it will be difficult to determine the cause of the fire.
(Video coverage: Yoon In-su JIBS, screen provided by: Jeju Fire Safety Headquarters, Seogwipo Maritime Police Station, viewers)