Busan supply window fire extinguished...a joint investigation with the U.S. Army and Fire Department

[Anchor]
The large fire at the USFK supply warehouse in Busan last night was all extinguished in 19 hours.

The USFK will work with our fire authorities to investigate the cause of the fire.

I'll connect with a reporter to find out about the situation on the ground. The car is a reporter!

Hardly put out the flames, when did the lights go out completely?

[Reporter]
The Busan Fire and Disaster Headquarters said it finished cleaning up the remaining lights around 1:30 p.m. today.

Our firefighters have handed over the scene to the U.S. military, and all have been withdrawn.

It took 13 hours to get to the first round of fire and 19 hours to get to the end of the fire.

Under the U.S. Forces Korea Status Agreement, the investigation into the cause of the fire was expected to be conducted by the U.S. military alone, but the fire authorities said a little while ago that they would jointly investigate it with the U.S. military.

However, he also said that the results of the investigation cannot be disclosed to the outside world.

This seems to be because the facility on fire is a U.S. military security facility in South Korea, so there is limited information that can be disclosed to the outside world.

The U.S. military has the right to investigate the incident inside the U.S. military unit, so it is expected that there will be no intervention by our police unless requested.

Fire authorities suspect the fire started in a freezer in the unit.

Yesterday, there was a plumbing work to use the warehouse for other purposes, and fire reports continued about an hour after the workers left the site.

Construction materials, urethane and rubber were stored in the warehouse, and there were no munitions or harmful chemicals.

Citizens who witnessed the fire said it was initially a small fire and then grew into a large fire that burned the entire warehouse.

The fire seems to have spread rapidly because the warehouse was built with sandwich panels that are vulnerable to fire.

The fire did not spread to other buildings in the unit thanks to the fire authorities' focus on preventing the expansion of combustion.

So far, this is Cha Sang-eun from YTN at the site of the fire at the U.S. military warehouse in Busan.