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(2)A 20-something fire disaster that knocked on the first floor to the 13th floor alone
(3)Input 20240122 morning 303 article text
(4)Reporter Joo Hyunwoo
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(6)Woo Young-il saved the residents of the fire in Banghwa-dong
(7)Take a wet towel and go up and down twice
(8)Please avoid apartments where many elderly and disabled people live,’ and evacuate the residents, saying, “I overcome the fear of acting by my father’s will to help those in need.”
“There’s a fire upstairs! Hurry up and evacuate!”
Around 6:50 a.m. on Saturday, Woo Young-il’s voice rang out from the hallway of a dark apartment building in Banghwa-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. Surprised by the urgent knock on the door, residents evacuated their apartment through emergency stairs without wearing clothes According to the residents, Woo evacuated the residents from the 15-story apartment building by going up and down twice for about 30 minutes, from the first floor to the 13th floor It was only after all the residents evacuated that Woo found himself running barefoot with one of his slippers off Both hands were covered with ash and black phlegm came out of the mouth According to fire officials, 95 people were evacuated from the apartment early in the day. A total of 150 households live in the apartment
Woo woke up around 6 a.m. that day and smelled the burning while preparing to go to work Woo, who opened the window and found the scene of the fire, went up from the 6th floor to the 14th floor where he lived around 6:45 a.m The corridor was already filled with smoke, making it difficult to step in prematurely Regarding the situation at the time, Woo said, “I heard an elderly groan inside the hallway,” adding, “I thought it would be too late when the fire department arrived.” Woo, who came downstairs, received a towel soaked in water from a resident and headed back to the 14th floor
Woo, who groped through the smoke with his posture lowered, found an elderly resident wandering in the middle of the hallway Woo pulled him downstairs and handed him over to the fire department who just arrived at the scene. An apartment resident, identified only by his last name Choi 61, said, “A young bachelor is on fire I was able not to be in danger by saying, ‘Come out quickly.’ I really appreciated it.”
Woo said, “I hesitated for about 10 minutes when I saw the smoke, but I had courage because I remembered my father’s will.” Before his death three years ago due to cirrhosis, Woo’s father said, “If people around you are in trouble, give a little bit of help.” After losing the head of the family, Woo’s family, who was eligible for basic living, became more difficult Woo has lived alone with his mother and worked at construction sites and restaurants I’m currently in the mobile telecommunications business
According to the Gangseo Fire Station in Seoul, a report was received to the fire department at around 6:54 a.m. on the same day, saying, “There is a smell of burning and smoke in the hallway.” Fire authorities mobilized 108 personnel and 30 equipment to completely extinguish the fire at around 7:49 a.m., and a resident of a 14-story house, who is believed to have started the fire, reportedly said, “The fire spread to pesticides while lighting a cigarette.” In the fire, a woman in her 70s living next door was rescued unconscious after inhaling smoke during the evacuation, and now she has regained consciousness