(27 Mar 2025)
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Cheongsong, South Korea – 27 March 2025
1. Wide of emergency vehicles
2. Various of wildfire at Juwang Mountain and helicopters droppimg water
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Andong, South Korea – 27 March 2025
3. Various of shelter for wildfire evacuees at Andong Indoor Gym
3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Seo Jae Tak, 79, Andong resident:
"This morning, I just kept on crying. I went back home yesterday and I saw the mountain completely burnt. I am lost for words. No way to describe the feeling. I just cried"
4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Eun Boon Soon, 81, Andong resident:
"(Fire) was too hot and it was impossible to describe. My heart is still pounding. I have a headache and I am dizzy. I had to go to hospital to get medicine."
5. Various of shelter
STORYLINE:
Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country’s worst-ever wildfires, which have killed 27 people, forced at least 37,000 others to flee their homes and destroyed more than 300 structures.
Multiple wildfires fueled by strong winds and dry weather have been raging across South Korea’s southeastern regions since last Friday.
The government has mobilized thousands of personnel, dozens of helicopters and other equipment to extinguish the blazes, but gusty winds are hampering their efforts.
Scientists say the warming atmosphere around the world is driving ever more extreme weather events, including wildfires, flooding, droughts, hurricanes and heat waves that are killing people and causing billions of dollars in damage every year.
The wildfires have burned 36,010 hectares (88,980 acres) of land, the disaster response center said Thursday.
Observers say that’s the worst figure of its kind in South Korea.
The center said the blazes have also injured 32 people, destroyed 325 buildings and structures and forced more than 37,180 people to evacuate.
As of Thursday morning, the center said authorities were mobilizing more than 9,000 people and about 120 helicopters to battle the wildfires.
AP Video by Yong Jun Chang
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