Fire at a Frozen Warehouse in Jinhae, Changwon City... Property Damage Estimated at Over 80 Million Won

Firefighters are extinguishing a fire in a cold storage warehouse.
[Photo by Changwon Fire Headquarters]

On the 24th at around 6:21 PM, a fire broke out in a frozen fish byproduct warehouse in Jinhae-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam.

According to the Changwon Fire Headquarters on the 25th, the fire was extinguished around 8 PM that day by firefighters who responded following a report from the manager of an adjacent building.

The fire caused damage estimated by the fire department at approximately 81.5 million KRW, destroying one frozen warehouse building, part of a restroom building, forklifts, trucks, and fish byproducts, but there were no casualties.

The police and fire authorities plan to investigate the exact cause of the fire through joint inspections conducted that day, based on statements from the warehouse workers who reported the fire after returning from collecting fish byproducts, as well as witness testimonies.