Wildfires raging throughout South Korea are now “biggest in the record”, said the head of the country’s disaster on Thursday. Contemporary fires burned more forests than any previous flames. The number of victims increased to 26.
“Wildfire is spreading rapidly,” AFP quoted Lee Han-Kyung, head of the Disaster and Security Division. He said: “Forest damage reached 35,810 hectares that have already crossed the area affected by fire on the east coast of 2000, formerly the largest record, by more than 10,000 hectares.”
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1. Since last Friday, several fires have been raging in the southeast regions of South Korea. According to Associated Press, the government has mobilized thousands of people, dozens of helicopters and other equipment to extinguish the flames.
2. Officials said strong winds are hindering their efforts.
3. The authorities suspect that the human error has caused several fires, including cases where people have started fires and cleaned overgrown grass from family tombs or sparks during welding work.
Wildfire, which was created in the Uiseong, moved quickly to the east and spread almost to the coast, transmitted by bumper winds and deteriorated with dry conditions.
4. Experts said that the fire of Uiseong has shown extremely unusual spread in terms of its extent and speed, and climate change is expected to be more often and deadly around the world.
Higher temperatures have contributed to the existing seasonally dry conditions by changing the dry landscape into a dangerous fire fuel in the region, the climatic central group, an independent body composed of scientists and scientists.
5. So far, Wildfirs have killed 26 people, forced at least 37,000 others to fry their homes and destroy more than 300 structures.
The deaths include a pilot whose helicopter crashed during the effort of fire and four firefighters and other workers who died after being imprisoned by fast -moving flames by powerful strong winds.
6. The authorities did not disclose the details of the civilian dead, except that they are mostly in their 60s and 70 years.
7. Blazes also injured 30 people, eight of whom were seriously destroyed by 325 buildings and structures and forced more than 37,180 people to evacuate, the government center said on Thursday.
8. In the southeast, fires burned 36,010 hectares (8,980 hectares) of land. Observers say he’s the worst character of his kind in South Korea.
9. The most difficult areas include the city of Andong and the neighboring county of Uiseong and Sancheong and the city of Ulsan.
10. The Korean Forest service increased the fire warnings to the highest level and required local governments to assign more workers to reaction to emergencies, tightening the restrictions of the entry into forests and parks, and recommended that military units to retain live fire exercises.
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