Fire on the 8th floor near Yatap Station...More than 300 rescues and evacuations

[Anchor]
A fire broke out at around 4:30 p.m. today in an eight-story building near Yatap Station in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do.

Several people were reported to be isolated because it was a complex building with restaurants and hospitals, but more than 300 people were rescued or evacuated.

I'll connect with a reporter on the field to find out more about the situation.

Reporter Facial expression!

How is the situation now?

[Reporter]
The big fire has been caught, but the work to clean up the remaining fire continues.

One side of the building behind me was charred.

The windows in the middle of the building are also broken everywhere due to the impact of the fire.

The appliances of the restaurant on the first floor, where the fire is believed to have started, appear almost intact,
The original shape of the
thousand steel bars is difficult to recognize because they are also burned.

At around 4:40 p.m. today (3rd), a five-story underground and eight-story commercial building in Yatap-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, caught fire.

It was found that there were about 300 citizens in the building, which houses restaurants and hospitals.

Of these, 70 were evacuated, and 240 were rescued by firefighters.

More than 130 of those evacuated were smoky, 34 of whom were taken to hospitals.

Fortunately, no patients are reported to be in critical condition.

Fire authorities said they received a number of reports of a fire in the kitchen on the first floor.

At one point, it issued the second stage of response to mobilize personnel and equipment from 8 to 14 nearby fire stations and started extinguishing them.

The response stage was lowered to the first stage at around 5:20 p.m. as a large fire was caught in about 30 minutes.

The fire authorities plan to continue the search for life after completing the work to extinguish the residual fire.

So far, this is YTN's facial expression at the fire site in Yatap-dong, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do.