{"id":45762,"date":"2025-03-26T03:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45762"},"modified":"2025-03-26T05:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:16:22","slug":"at-least-18-dead-as-unprecedented-wildfires-rage-across-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=45762","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 dead as \u2018unprecedented\u2019 wildfires rage across South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 18 people have been killed and almost 20 injured as wildfires rage in multiple areas across South Korea\u2019s southeastern region where thousands of firefighters and soldiers are struggling to control rapidly expanding blazes, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korea\u2019s official Yonhap news agency said the death toll had reached 18 on Wednesday, the sixth day of the fires, which are being fuelled by strong and dry winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Yonhap, four victims burned to death after they tried to escape the fires but their car overturned. They were found dead on a road late on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Korea Forest Service said firefighters are fighting at least five active wildfires nationwide as of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_3602655\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-25T124045Z_1913825034_RC2CKDA5IH6H_RTRMADP_3_SOUTHKOREA-FIRE-1742954737.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C578&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Smoke rises from a wildfire that devastates the area, in Andong, South Korea, March 25, 2025. Yonhap via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA.\" class=\"wp-image-3602655\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Smoke rises from a wildfire that has devastated areas in Andong county, South Korea, on March 25, 2025 [Yonhap via Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wildfires began late on Friday in Sancheong county in Northern Gyeongsang province before spreading to neighbouring Uiseong county \u2013 located about 180km (111 miles) southeast of the capital Seoul \u2013 and have advanced into Andong, Cheongsong, Yeongyang, and Yeongdeok counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: At least 18 people have been killed and almost 20 injured as wildfires rage in multiple areas across South Korea\u2019s southeastern region where thousands of firefighters and soldiers are struggling to control rapidly expanding blazes, officials said. South Korea\u2019s official Yonhap news agency said the death toll had reached 18 on Wednesday, the sixth day of the fires, which are being fuelled by strong and dry winds. According to Yonhap, four victims burned to death after they tried to escape the fires but their car overturned. They were found dead on a road late on Tuesday night. The&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45764,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762\/revisions\/45764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}