Fires Break Out During Chuseok Holiday, Including Blaze Caused by Cigarette

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Fires broke out in various locations overnight. In Wando, South Jeolla Province, a fire at a gas appliance store forced 20 residents to evacuate urgently, while in Seoul, a woman in her 60s was injured in a fire suspected to have started from a cigarette.

Reporter An Huijae has the details.

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Clouds of smoke billow continuously above fierce red flames.

Only the skeleton of the vinyl greenhouse remains.

At around 8:20 p.m. yesterday (September 25), a report was received stating that a wooden house was on fire in Seogok-ri, Wonju, Gangwon Province.

The fire burned a storage container and a vinyl greenhouse before being extinguished in about an hour.

Authorities reported that no injuries were sustained in the incident.

Fire authorities are currently investigating the exact cause of the fire and the scale of the damage.

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The entire store is engulfed in fierce flames.

At around 7:20 p.m. yesterday, a fire broke out at a gas appliance store located in Wando-eup, Wando-gun, South Jeolla Province.

Fire authorities mobilized about 50 personnel and roughly 10 pieces of equipment to extinguish the blaze in two hours and 20 minutes.

Although there were no casualties, the fire caused a commotion that forced some 20 nearby residents to evacuate urgently during the Chuseok holiday evening.

[Fire Official: (The store owner) was out, was out. There were villas nearby, so people knocked on doors to guide them to evacuate....]

Fire officials stated that because the store was completely burned down, determining the exact cause is difficult, and a joint inspection will be conducted as soon as daylight breaks.

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At around 7:20 p.m. yesterday, a fire broke out at a home in Hongji-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and was put out in an hour.

A woman in her 60s sustained burns from the fire and received treatment at a hospital.

Police and fire authorities are focusing on the possibility that the fire was sparked by a cigarette.

(Video editing: Kim Jun-hee, Footage provided by: Wonju Fire Station and Wando Fire Station)
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