Freeway moving truck fire... 'Saving 52 people' Ansan shopping mall caught fire again in two weeks

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A moving truck on the highway caught fire, causing a major traffic jam at one point.

Another fire broke out in two weeks in a commercial building in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, where more than 50 people were rescued due to a large fire last month.

This is reporter Park Jung-hyun.

[Reporter] There's a blackened truck standing in the middle of the
highway.

The cargo compartment melted to the point where it could not be recognized at all.

It was around 10 p.m. last night that a moving truck driving near the Nogosan Tunnel on the Seoul Metropolitan Area 1 Circulation Expressway was engulfed in flames.

Four people, including the car owner who found smoke, were evacuated, and there were no casualties.The

fire was extinguished in an hour after burning all of its trucks, and at one point some lanes were closed to fight the fire, causing major gridlock.

[Accident Witness: The congestion time was approximately 35 minutes. on the spot It's like a parking lot.]

Police and fire authorities suspect it is an engine overheating problem.

Firefighters enter the house where gray smoke rises.

The roof collapsed in flames and the interior was completely reduced to ashes.

A fire broke out at around 4:20 p.m. yesterday in a detached house in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province.

It is believed that a fire broke out while using a portable gas stove, but fortunately, a man in his 70s avoided himself in time and no one was injured.

Both houses were damaged by the fire department's estimate of 18 million won.

At around 4 p.m. yesterday, a van crossing the central line on the national road in Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, collided with a car running on the opposite side, killing two people and seriously injuring one.

A fire broke out at around 7 p.m. last night in a commercial building in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province.

A fire broke out in the restaurant on the first floor of the building on the 17th of last month, and more than 50 people were rescued.

The fire broke out again in just two weeks, and fire officials explained that the ignition point is believed to be a signage wire on the outer wall of the building and seems to have nothing to do with the last fire.

I'm Park Jeonghyun of YTN.