"Busy, Busy!"... Gyeonggi Fire Department Rescued 1 Person Every 20.6 Minutes Last Year

The Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters rescued one resident every 20.6 minutes last year.

The Fire and Disaster Headquarters announced on the 12th that it responded to 380,704 incidents related to rescue and daily safety last year, handled 177,853 cases, and rescued 25,447 people.

This means an average of 1,043 dispatches per day, with 487 rescue activities resulting in 69.7 people rescued daily. Converted to time, this equates to one dispatch every 1.3 minutes, one rescue activity every 2.9 minutes, and one person rescued every 20.6 minutes.

Analyzing the 221,308 rescue dispatches by type, fire suppression was the most frequent with 96,014 cases, accounting for 43.4% of the total. This was followed by ▲location confirmation with 39,443 cases (17.8%) ▲traffic accidents with 31,965 cases (14.4%) ▲elevator rescues with 11,646 cases (5.3%).

Rescue Operations

Fire suppression increased by 104.4% compared to the previous year (46,755 cases), and location confirmation increased by 158.3% compared to the previous year (15,271 cases).

Among the 159,471 daily safety dispatches, bee hive removal accounted for 68,443 cases, or 42.9% of the total. This was followed by false fire alarms (alarms triggered in non-fire situations) with 42,575 cases (26.7%), animal handling with 22,415 cases (14.1%), and obstacle removal with 9,710 cases (6.1%).

Bee hive removal increased by 33.8% compared to the previous year (51,156 cases).

The number of rescue dispatches and rescues by the Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters ranked first nationwide, exceeding Seoul’s 220,434 rescue dispatches by 160,270 cases, and the number of people rescued was also 6,477 more than Seoul’s 18,970.

Jo Sun-ho, head of the Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters, emphasized, "As the demand for rescues increases daily, Gyeonggi-do accounts for 29.1% of the nation’s rescue dispatches, overwhelmingly the highest. We will analyze the results of rescue and daily safety activities to eliminate blind spots in rescue dispatches and strengthen the 119 emergency rescue response capabilities to efficiently respond to wide-area disasters."

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