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Yesterday (25th) evening, there was a big fire at the largest agricultural and fishery wholesale market in Daegu.

The fire was completely extinguished in three and a half hours.

It is understood that there have been no casualties so far, but there has been significant property damage, such as burning around 70 stores.



Reporter Ahn Sang-hyuk of TBC reports.



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Red flames soar at the Daegu Maecheon Market.



Flames of black smoke are blown by the wind and spread throughout the market.



The fire broke out in Nongsan Building A, where fruits are auctioned off in the wholesale market, at 8:27, when the first report came in from the Fire Department, and an hour later, around 9:30, a large flame was extinguished.



Most of the produce inside the store was burned.



Merchants complain that most of the cash and agricultural products inside were all burned.



[Park Jung-hee / Merchant: There must be about 130 million now (inside the store). They paid hundreds of millions of dollars for a firefighting facility, did it work?

It's not working.

The bell rings every day...

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The Daegu Fire Department issued the second stage of response, mobilized 80 fire trucks and 230 firefighters to extinguish the fire, and extinguished all fires in three and a half hours.



The place where the fire started was a warehouse with a sandwich panel structure, which caught fire in an instant, making it difficult to put out the fire.



So far, no casualties have been confirmed, and today the exact cause of the fire and property damage are also being investigated.



As most of the fruits in the warehouse were destroyed by this fire, the auction market today is inevitably disrupted.



[Maecheon Agricultural Products Market Official: In order to do an auction, the quantity must be unloaded, but because of the fire, most of the goods are moved to Building B.

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Daegu Maecheon Market was established in 1988, and in 2013, an unknown fire broke out in the shopping district A, which burned 30 stores and caused property damage of 1 billion won.