Flame: Heartbreaking Tales of Firefighter Gwang-suk Gyeong-suk’s Heroism at the Sampoong Department Store Collapse – Illness and Trauma of Old Firefighters

2023-09-20 05:00:19

A digital interactive page containing the story of firefighter Gwang-suk Gyeong-suk’s rescue scene at Sampoong Department Store, ‘Flame: Disaster engraved on the body’, episode 2, a scene from ‘Illness and Trauma of an Old Firefighter’

Gyeong Gwang-sook, a 66-year-old retired firefighter, has not forgotten that voice for 28 years. On the seventh day after the collapse of Sampoong Department Store, a woman’s voice was heard from beneath the rubble, saying, “Please save my uncle.” She said, “You should go back to your family in the evening. “Except for what I ask, you have to endure it and minimize talking and breathing,” she said, to which she responded, “It’s so, so hard.” But eventually, the woman was found dead. Gyeong Gwang-suk could not look at the face of the corpse due to her guilt, and the woman’s voice remained her hallucination. The Hankyoreh conducted in-depth interviews with three retired firefighters who were deployed to the scene of the Sampoong Department Store collapse. And this content is published in the second edition of the digital interactive page ‘Flame: Disaster engraved on the body’. ‘Illness and Trauma of Old Firefighters’It was reconstructed as The three retired firefighters suffered illness and trauma while still working in the field after Sampung. He also suffered from hearing loss due to repeated siren sounds. The Hankyoreh also measured the noise level of the sirens mounted on fire trucks at the Gapyeong Fire Station in Gyeonggi Province.

A digital interactive page containing the story of firefighter Gwang-suk Gyeong-suk’s rescue scene at Sampoong Department Store, ‘Flame: Disaster engraved on the body’, episode 2, a scene from ‘Illness and Trauma of an Old Firefighter’

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