![At around 3:20 pm on the 21st, a fire broke out in the hills of Mangcheon-ri, Imdong-myeon, Andong-si, Gyeongbuk. As the forest fire spread, the forest authorities and the fire department issued the second stage of response and mobilized helicopters and fire trucks to extinguish the fire. Andong City instructed residents of Jungpyeong-ri, Imdong-myeon to evacuate. The picture shows a forest fire spreading around. [사진 산림청]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202102/22/c4ae2631-5248-4bc6-970e-d77d2ba9184f.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
At around 3:20 pm on the 21st, a fire broke out in the hills of Mangcheon-ri, Imdong-myeon, Andong-si, Gyeongbuk. As the forest fire spread, the forest authorities and the fire department issued the second stage of response and mobilized helicopters and fire trucks to extinguish the fire. The city of Andong instructed the residents of Jungpyeong-ri in Imdong-myeon to evacuate. The picture shows a forest fire spreading around. [사진 산림청]
In early spring, the’breeze’ struck a series of wildfires. On the 21st, a large-scale wildfire occurred in four new locations nationwide for only two hours on the 21st, and the flames have not been caught until 9pm.
Warning of four critical stages including Yecheon
The flames won’t be caught until 9 o’clock last night
Evacuation of village residents in Andong, control of national highway
The Korea Forest Service’s Central Forest Fire Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters announced that seven wildfires occurred nationwide on this day, with three extinguished and four leading to night forest fires. The first forest fire on this day occurred at around 2:41 pm at Gujaebong Peak (773m above sea level) behind Mijeom-ri Mijeom-ri, Akyang-myeon, Hadong-gun, Gyeongnam. About 600 people, including public officials and residents, and 14 helicopters were mobilized for the evolution. At the time of the fire, there was a 4m/sec western wind blowing in the Hadong area, which is the level of a breeze of leaves and slender branches shaking.
Around 3:20 pm, a forest fire broke out in the hills of Mangcheon-ri, Imdong-myeon, Andong-si, Gyeongbuk. About 100 firefighters, 10 helicopters, 10 fire trucks, and 500 civil servants from Andong City Hall were mobilized, but the fire spread eastward through the wind, so it could not catch the flame until sunset. Some residents of nearby villages were evacuated to neighboring town halls, and access to some of the neighboring national highways was also restricted. In Andong, a breeze of 5.6m per second blew at the time of the fire.
In Yasan, Gamcheon-myeon, Yecheon-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, close to Andong, a forest fire of unknown cause occurred at around 4:12 pm on the same day. The fire continued to spread, burning dry trees in the breeze of 5.2m per second. Even at Yasan, Maegok-myeon, Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, a forest fire occurred in the wind at 5.6m per second at about 4:18 pm, and the flame was not caught until late. The Central Forest Fire Countermeasures and Prevention Headquarters issued a’severe’ level of forest fire crisis alerts as of 5:45 pm on the same day to the four areas that led to night forest fires. On this day, small forest fires occurred in Yeosu in Jeollanam-do, Geochang in Gyeongnam, and Namwon in Jeollabuk-do, but all of these areas were extinguished.
Gong Ha-seong, a professor at the Department of Fire and Disaster Prevention at Wooseok University, said, “Andong forest fires are spreading because of the wind blowing in the region.” said.
Andong, Hadong, Youngdong = Reporters Jeongseok Kim, Jongkwon Choi, Sunyoon Hwang, Yunho Kim, Hyunye Kim [email protected]