South Korea used eight blushelicopters on Saturday to fight the re-flaring fire in the southeast of the country. This is how a forest management manager announces.
The forest fire flared up again on Saturday morning in the city of Angong, in the province of Noord-Gyeongsang. The fire brigade had nevertheless managed to put the fire on Friday – helped by the rain. “It seems that coal has started to smolder over again,” said the person in charge.
The forest fires broke out last Friday in Sancheong, in the province of South Gyeongsang, about 250 kilometers southeast of the capital Seul, and spread to other parts of the country. The fires cost life to thirty people. Forty people were injured, including ten people seriously injured.
Forest fires are not uncommon in South Korea during dry periods, but in recent years both the average temperatures and the extreme weather conditions in the country have increased, so that the risk of forest fires has also risen considerably. Scientists see the rising number of forest fires in South Korea as a symptom of climate change.