7 Cities and Counties in Chungnam Receive Special Disaster Relief Fund for Wildfire Damage Recovery

Special grants for wildfire damage recovery will be provided to 7 cities and counties in Chungnam.

Chungnam Province announced on the 5th that it received a total of 1.3 billion KRW in special grants from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, which will be distributed differently according to the wildfire damage areas and scale.

The special grants will be allocated as follows: 1.103 billion KRW to Hongseong-gun, 70 million KRW each to Dangjin and Boryeong, 30 million KRW to Geumsan, 20 million KRW to Buyeo, 5 million KRW to Seosan, and 2 million KRW to Cheonan.

Each city and county can use the special grants to handle debris from houses and livestock barns destroyed by the wildfire and to prepare emergency relief supplies for affected residents.

Earlier, on the 2nd, a total of 10 wildfires occurred in 7 cities and counties including Hongseong in Chungnam. As of midnight on the 5th, the wildfires caused damage by burning 1,632 hectares of forest and 85 buildings including houses and other facilities.

A provincial official said, “We will promptly allocate the special grants to quickly recover from the wildfire damage and help the disaster victims return to their daily lives as soon as possible.”

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