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Beej · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop

Two moms died after falling from a fire engine during a fire drill at an elementary school in Seoul, police said yesterday.

The two housewives - Jeong In-young, 42 and Hwang Seong-hye, 36 - fell from a salvage basket lifted 24 meters off the ground, during a fire drill at Wonmuk Elementary School in Muk-dong, Seoul Jungrang district. One other woman, O Hye-suk, 40, was badly injured and immediately moved to a nearby hospital.

The salvage basket had flipped over as a steel rope binding the basket to the fire truck was let loose, police said. Police are investigating what caused the rope to snap.

About 240 students and their mothers had been participating in a three-hour fire drill, which was being conducted under the supervision of fire fighters affiliated to the National Emergency Management Agency.

The NEMA has been conducting fire drills at elementary schools in Seoul as part of its May emergency drill project. About 1,500 students, parents and fire fighters have participated in the special drills from May 1, the agency said.

The Ministry of Education has dispatched an investigative team to find the exact cause of the incident, officials said.

By Shin Hae-in

https://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2007/05/18/200705180046.asp

A whole school of kids witnessed this. The horror. Probably had no business being up there in the first place. How would hoisting some women up there address fire safety?

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

Tragic. The incompetence and general lack of sense over here is sometimes laughable, but not in this incidence.

Damulgun · Joined: 11 Mar 2007

Passions · Joined: 31 May 2006

They will probably find some reason to blame Bush for this incident.

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

At my school last year we were told to take our kids from the 8th floor up to the roof on the 10th floor when the bell rang.

We asked: "Shouldn't we be going downstairs in a firedrill?"

Head Teacher: "Oh, I never thought of that." "But that will take too long. Make the kids hold their hands over their mouths and go to the 10th floor."

Tokki1 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:49 am Post subject:

I shouldn't be laughing, but I am.

The scene described in the article makes no sense at all. WTF were the women doing up there?

A 3 hour fire drill? Was it suicide?