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SOUTH KOREA HOSPITAL FIRE KILLS DOZENS IN MIRYANG

The started in the emergency ward at about 7:30 in the morning. It quickly spread to other parts of
sejong hospital and took firefighters more than an hour to bring under control and another two hours to
extinguish. “we stoped the fire from spreading from the first floor to the second floor, during the initial phase
and therefore also prevented it from spreading to the rest of the building.” Despite the rescue efforts the patients
and medical staff were killed, most were suffocated by inhaling toxic fumes about 100 patients were being
treated in the hospital when the blaze broke out 90 other people in an adjacent nursing unit were safely
evacuated. President Moon Jae in ordered an investigation into the cause of the fire. “President Moon expresses
regret and sadness over the situation of the fire that broke out as Asia on hospital which led to a high number of
casualities not long after the fire in session”. That fire in the southern city of Jetan claimed 29 lives just last
month, at the time prime minister Lee Na Kyung promised there would never be a repeat, now he says he
ashamed to have to say the same thing. “Questions are once again being asked about fire safety in South Korea”
said Jang hospital doesn’t have water sprinklers, because of its relatively small size the low doesn’t require
them. – Kathy Novak, Al-Jazeera, Soul.
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