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Firefighters put out the embers on a mountain near the Gounsa temple after a wildfire devastated the area, in Uiseong, South Korea, March 27, 2025. — Reuters
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Endong: The forest fire in South Korea is now the largest and deadliest in the record, it has burned more forests and killed more people than any previous fire, officials said Thursday, when the number of casualties affected 28.
More than a dozen fire broke out at the end of the week, a massive southeast of southeast and forced about 37,000 people to flee, when residents cut the roads as they escaped in panic and communicated lines came down.
“The fire of this jungle has once again exposed the rigorous reality of the climate crisis, which we have experienced before,” said Lee Han Qing, head of the Disaster and Safety Division.
On Thursday, the day earlier, the wildfire was doubled, as officials called Blaze.
More than 38,000 hectares (93,900 acres) have been filled or still burning in the largest fire in Central Yuzong County, making it the largest forest fire in South Korean history. The previous record was 24,000 hectares (59,000 acres) in the fire in March 2000.
Acting President Han Dick Soo told an official response, “We are in an important situation at the national level, which has led to many casualties due to the unprecedented spread of forest fire.”
The army has released the aviation fuel reserves to help fly fire -fighting helicopters to fire in the mountainous areas southeast of the country, where the fire has now been flames for about a week.
The Ministry of Security said that more than 120 helicopters have been deployed in three areas fighting the Blaz. South Korea relies on helicopters to fire forest due to its mountainous regions. A helicopter pilot died on Wednesday after he crashed when he tried to deal with the fire.
The forest fire in Yosong is rapidly moving towards the east, spreading on the coast, promoting the situation through strong winds and with dry conditions.
“The fire of using the National Forestary Service’s satellite imagery analysis said that the using fire began to spread rapidly on Wednesday, which reached the coastal county of Yongdok at a distance of 50 km (30 miles) in just 12 hours.”
On Thursday evening, some parts of the affected region received short rains. Officials said it had a very low rainfall of one millimeter to extinguish the fire, but it would help to overcome it.
The same amount of rainfall is expected for some areas on Friday.
Experts have said that the Yuzong fire has shown the most unusual spread in terms of its scale and speed, and it is expected that climate change will make the global forest fire more often and deadly.
An independent organization consisting of scientists and researchers said in a report, that high temperatures played a vital role in current seasonal dry conditions through human climate change, “changing dry scenes into dangerous fire fuel”, an independent group of scientists and researchers.
The forest fire has set a way to destruction through the area of Singapore, which has destroyed everything on its way, including historic temples and houses of the mountainous forests in the North Gyings, the province.
Firefighters teams are on the Standbai to protect the World Heritage Heritage Heritage Site’s World Heritage Site and the Bioongsan Confucian Academy in Andong City, if the stream flows around them jumps.
There are traditional Korean houses in the beautiful Lok village, with many roofs, while the Confucian Academy is more than 450 years.
The fire has already badly damaged other historical sites, including most of the Gunsa Temple in Yosong, which was built in 681.
“The buildings and remnants of the buildings that Buddhist monks have left for more than 1,300 years have now disappeared,” said Dong Won, head of the Gonasa Temple.
