"A fire extinguisher is required for vehicles"...December 1st Mandatory

[Anchor]
There is a law that will be expanded from the 1st of next month.

All vehicles with more than five passengers must have a fire extinguisher for vehicles.

It can save precious lives as well as the initial extinguishment of vehicle fires.

Reporter Hong Seong-wook reports.

[Reporter]
Flames rise from the vehicle that hit the excavator.

A citizen who sees the fire gets out of the car and approaches with a simple fire extinguisher.

It's hard to extinguish by spraying fire extinguishers, but it's not enough.

Soon after, the firefighters who arrived put out the fire completely.

From the 1st of next month, all vehicles with five or more passengers must have fire extinguishers for vehicles.

The informant, who witnessed the fire and put out the fire, said he was mistaking the spray-type simple fire extinguisher for a vehicle fire extinguisher, and that there was something he wanted to say on the air.

[Shin Se-gye / Fire video informant (prosecutor)] Experience has shown that spray-type simple fire extinguishers are not very helpful in vehicle fires. The National Fire Agency is promoting the need to have a combined display fire extinguisher for vehicles, but most people don't seem to know it well, so I hope it will be promoted through YTN news.]

Vehicle fire at a highway rest stop on the 17th.

The reason we were able to evolve early without significant damage was because of our automotive fire extinguishers.

A family of Navy noncommissioned officers, who witnessed smoke rising from their cars, took a fire extinguisher and began to extinguish the fire.

[Park Mi-sook / Fire extinguishing family: I was parking for a while when a car caught fire. We had a fire extinguisher in our car. My husband is now spraying it, and my son and daughter are walking around the convenience store and bringing a fire extinguisher....]

More than 3,000 vehicle fires occur annually.

In the last three years, 27 people have been killed and 149 injured.

This is why it is mandatory to have a fire extinguisher for vehicles, which is clearly distinct from a spray-type simple fire extinguisher.

[Huh Kyung-ae / Chuncheon Fire Station Prevention Team Leader: The fire extinguisher for vehicles says it's for vehicles. Now, passenger cars with five or more people have to have one unit of fire extinguisher with 0.7kg written on them.]

For vehicle fire extinguishers, it is especially recommended to keep them in a place where they can be taken out of the driver's seat and used at any time, rather than in the back seat or trunk.

I'm YTN's Hong Sung Wook.