Korea Forest Service "Resuming Deployment of Firefighting Helicopters... Uiseong Maintains Flight Suspension"
The deployment of wildfire suppression helicopters to the field will be resumed sequentially.
On the 26th at 3:30 PM, the Korea Forest Service announced that wildfire suppression helicopters will be sequentially deployed to the field. However, all suppression helicopters in Uiseong-gun, where the helicopter crash occurred, and the operation of the same S76 (medium-sized) model involved in the accident will continue to be suspended.
The helicopter crash occurred around 12:51 PM that day in Gyoan-ri, Sinpyeong-myeon, Uiseong-gun, Gyeongbuk Province. After the accident, the Korea Forest Service suspended the operation of all suppression helicopters deployed to wildfire sites nationwide starting from 1:30 PM.
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However, considering that the national wildfire disaster crisis alert level has been raised to ‘Severe’ and that large wildfires in Uiseong and Andong in Gyeongbuk, Sancheong and Hadong in Gyeongnam, and Ulju in Ulsan have not been fully extinguished, the Korea Forest Service explained that it has decided to resume the deployment of suppression helicopters, which are key resources for wildfire suppression.
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