KNOCKING ON A NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE WITH BARE FEET, "IT'S FIRE"... SAVED 56 OFFICETELS IN THE EARLY MORNING

Knocking on a neighbor's house with bare feet, "It's fire"... Saved 56 officetels in the early morning

Knocking on a neighbor's house with bare feet, "It's fire"... Saved 56 officetels in the early morning

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“I thought it was impossible, so I put on only pants and opened the door, but the hallway was filled with black smoke. My body moved first before I even thought it was scary.”

On the 4th, around 5 am, a fire broke out on the 8th floor of an officetel in Gonghang-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. Park Jin-woo (29), an office worker who lived on the 8th floor, said he woke up to the sound of a fire alarm ringing in his ear. Park, who opened the front door wearing only gray sweatpants, ran barefoot into the hallway as soon as he saw the smoke filling the hallway and started knocking on the door of his neighbor. He shouted “Fire” and ran through the third floor, from the 8th to the 10th floor.

At 5 am on the 4th, when a fire broke out in an officetel in Gonghang-dong, 오피사이트 Gangseo-gu, Seoul, resident Park Jin-woo ran across three floors from the 8th to the 10th floor and woke up his neighbors./Reader provided

He could have escaped the officetel first after seeing the smoke, but he said he only thought of evacuating people quickly. Mr. Park, who works at a Chinese restaurant in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province, said, “I was well aware of how dangerous fire was because I usually worked close to fire.” Park remembered that the smoke was going upstairs, so he evacuated not only the 8th floor, but also the residents on the 9th and 10th floors. It is said that Park woke up and evacuated 21 houses for 7 minutes from 5:02 a.m., when the officetel fire report was received, to 5:09 a.m., when firefighters arrived.

According to the Gangseo Fire Station in Seoul, the fire at the officetel that day occurred when the mosquito repellent that a resident of the 8th floor, surnamed Kim (64), smoked, attached to a flammable substance next to it. A firefighting official said, “On check here this day, all 56 residents evacuated safely except for Mr. Kim, who suffered second-degree burns on his buttocks.” It has contributed greatly to saving lives.”

Mr. Park's motto is "Do what is right and don't try to be praised." Mr. Park said, “Rather than thinking that I was scared, I think I did what I had to do,” and “I feel ashamed to be praised like this. Anyone other than me would have done the same.”

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