First extinguished in an hour after the Incheon Material Shopping Center fire...Three of us, smoke inhalation.

At around 8:20 p.m. today (18th), a fire broke out at a material shopping mall in Hakik-dong, Incheon, and a big fire was extinguished in an hour and 20 minutes.

The fire moved to the outer wall of the villa behind the mall and three villa residents were taken to the hospital after inhaling smoke.

In addition, eight residents were evacuated to a nearby administrative welfare center.

The fire department once issued the first phase of the response, in which all fire department personnel were dispatched, fearing the possibility of fire spreading.

Fire authorities said they are using excavators to clean up the remaining fires as shopping mall loadings, and expected it to take a long time to completely extinguish them.