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A fire at a hotel in downtown Incheon severely wounded two and injured 52 others, fire authorities said.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is expected to cut next year's budget for firefighters' psychological support, even as more and more emergency workers complain of traumatic stress.
President Yoon Suk Yeol stressed the importance of security in improving people's livelihood and economic growth over the Chuseok holiday, meeting with troops, atomic bomb victims, police officers and firefighters.
Twenty-one people, including firefighters and government employees, sustained injuries during explosions that occurred while extinguishing a fire at a closed-down public bathhouse in Busan. Two people were seriously injured.
A fire broke out at a waste management facility in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, Friday, killing one person.
Police, firefighters and forensic officials enter a building in Icheon, Gyeonggi, the site of a fire that killed five people last Friday, to conduct a second joint inspection on Monday.
“When I am called to duty, God, wherever flames may rage, give me strength to save a life, whatever be its age. And if according to your will I have to lose my life...
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