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On the afternoon of yesterday (19th), the ski lift suddenly stopped at the Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do.
The accident left 54 passengers suspended in the air for three hours, shivering in cold and fear.
Reporter Lee Kang reports.
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is an intermediate ski slope at Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do.
Yesterday at 4:12 pm the lift suddenly stopped.
As the lift stopped, 54 passengers were also isolated hanging in the air.
At the time of the accident, the perceived temperature in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, reached minus 17 degrees Celsius, and the passengers had to shiver with fear and the cold.
When the report was received, the fire department issued the first stage of response, and put in 20 pieces of equipment and 60 firefighters.
We focused on preventing hypothermia by throwing winter items such as blankets by hand to passengers shivering in the cold, and at 5:17 pm, an hour after the accident, we rescued three passengers from the top of the slope.
The remaining passengers were all rescued at 7:48 pm, three hours after the accident, but three, including 21-year-old A, complained of hypothermia and were taken to the hospital.
The resort is investigating the exact cause of the lift stop accident, and the police are also trying to figure out the circumstances.