Fires devastate South Korea: a rescue helicopter crashes | EUROtoday

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Some fireplace The southern areas of the South Korea: i to this point ascertained are 18over 200 constructions have been destroyed. South Korean officers say {that a} helicopter fell in the course of the efforts to include fires within the sweating metropolis of Uiseong. The Korean forestry service has declared that rescue operations are underway and that the plane was assigned by a single pilot with no crew members.

Fallen helicopter

A dedicated helicopter I include the bonfires crashed at the moment by killing the pilot, reported the native fireplace brigade division. “A helicopter who was turning off the wooded fire crashed into a mountainous area in Uiseong County,” stated an official of the Gyeongbuk Fire Service including that “a pilot was declared dead on the spot”.