Gwangju Seobu Fire Station Conducts Plogging Campaign for Fire Prevention

Gwangju Seobu Fire Station announced on the 29th that it conducted a plogging campaign, which involves walking while picking up cigarette butts.

Plogging is a volunteer activity promoted by many environmental organizations, defined as "jogging while simultaneously picking up trash."

The Seobu Fire Station also incorporated plogging into fire prevention efforts, aiming to spread a fire prevention culture focused on cigarette butts, a major cause of fires, and to protect the local environment by picking up cigarette butts that significantly impact the community during plogging.

The main initiatives included ▲conducting cigarette butt plogging mainly around religious temples and parks with high foot traffic ▲distributing and providing leaflets on cigarette butt fire prevention and safety guidelines to citizens ▲removing cigarette butts that damage the local natural environment and facilities such as fields and drainage areas.

A fire official stated, "I feel good that these small actions have brought us one step closer to fire prevention," adding, "We will continue to promote various campaigns to prevent fires and other disasters and strive to make Seogu a safe district."