South Gyeongsang residents evacuated due to forest fire
![Smokes from a fire in a mountain in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang, rising on Wednseday. [NEWS1]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2023/03/08/684e89eb-9d7f-4507-9bef-a7f20c923fb3.jpg)
Smokes from a fire in a mountain in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang, rising on Wednseday. [NEWS1]
Approximately 200 of residents from six villages of Hapcheon in South Gyeongsang were evacuated due to a severe forest fire.
The Korea Forest Service on Wednesday raised the emergency level to its highest. This level is triggered when a fire consumes 100 hectares and when the wind velocity is above 7 meters per second.
Some 33 fire-fighting helicopters, 50 fire trucks and nearly 550 fire fighters were sent to the scene.
The fire broke out around 2 p.m.
BY LEE HO-JEONG [lee.hojeong@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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