(20 Jan 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seoul, South Korea - 20 January 2023
1. Various of firefighters putting out fire
2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Sung-han, 66, village resident:
"How could this happen on the Lunar New Year holiday. I can't describe I feel. I had to run out of home only in this clothes (and without bringing anything else). I couldn't go to work.. when it's already so hard to live."
3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Oh Chang-hwan, 67, village resident:
"A fire was blazing over there, and the firetruck came, but the fire became too big so (the firefighters) couldn't put it out (immediately)."
4. Various of incident site
STORYLINE:
About 500 South Koreans were forced to flee their homes after a fire spread through a low-income neighborhood in southern Seoul Friday morning and destroyed at least 60 homes.
Officials said fire fighters were bringing the fire under control at Guryong village and there were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths.
Shin Yong-ho, an official at the fire department of Seoul’s Gangnam district, said rescue workers were continuing to search areas affected by the fire but that it was believed that all of the residents there have safely evacuated.
More than 800 fire fighters, police officers and public workers were deployed to fight the flame and handle evacuations after the fire broke out at around 6:30 a.m.
AP Video shot by Yong Ho Kim and Yong jun Chang
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