Survivor Who Endured 14 Hours in Flooded Parking Lot: "I Didn't Give Up Because of the Children"

Rescued After 14 Hours Missing
Husband Shares Feelings with Wife During Hospital Transfer

On the evening of the 6th, due to heavy rain from Typhoon 'Hinnamnor', fire and military personnel are rescuing missing residents in the underground parking lot of an apartment in Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongbuk.
[Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jung-wan] A man who was rescued 14 hours after going missing in the flooded underground parking lot of an apartment in Pohang, Gyeongbuk, due to Typhoon Hinnamnor, reportedly expressed his feelings, saying, "There were times I wanted to give up, but I couldn't because of my children."

According to media reports including Yonhap News on the 6th, Mr. Jeon (39), a resident who was rescued alive about 14 hours after going missing in the flooded underground parking lot of an apartment in Indeok-dong, Nam-gu, Pohang, revealed his feelings during the isolation to his wife inside the 119 ambulance on the way to the hospital.

According to Jeon's story conveyed in the form of a conversation with his wife, he went to the underground parking lot but could not open the car door due to the water filling the floor. His wife expressed relief in the 119 ambulance, saying to her husband, "Did the water fill up in an instant?" and "It's really a relief you weren't inside the car."

On the evening of the 6th, fire and military personnel are rescuing missing residents from an underground parking lot of an apartment in Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongbuk, flooded by heavy rain from Typhoon 'Hinnamnor'.
[Image source=Yonhap News]

The survivor Jeon's wife said that he appeared to have taken off his clothes and stood in a space presumed to be an air pocket to maintain his body temperature underwater. She added, "It seems there was a place where he could breathe on the side where my husband was."

Meanwhile, the rescue team announced that around 8:15 p.m. that day, while performing drainage work in the underground parking lot of the apartment where the accident occurred, they found Jeon holding onto the sewage pipe in the underground parking lot and rescued him. A witness said that when Jeon was seen swimming out to the parking lot entrance, the rescue team tied a rope and went in to rescue him.

Meanwhile, eight people, including residents who went to retrieve their cars from the flooded underground parking lot of an apartment in Pohang, Gyeongbuk, affected by Typhoon Hinnamnor, were found. According to the fire authorities on the 7th, among the eight people found between 8:15 p.m. on the 6th and 12:35 a.m. on the 7th, Mr. Jeon (39) and Ms. A (52) were transported to the hospital alive. However, six others?one 65-year-old woman, one 68-year-old man, one unidentified man and woman in their 50s, one man in his 20s, and one teenage boy?were found in cardiac arrest.

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