The fifth flooring of the primary constructing of Ahyun Constructing. 11:03 p.m.

Bang!!

Dowook and Lee Ji-seok, who handed the lengthy hallway as quickly because the door opened, ran to the meals court docket and stood in entrance of the escalator.

“I feel this place, which is the middle, might be sooner than the outer emergency exit. What do you assume?”

“I agree. I feel this route would be the best.”

Dowook moved towards the sixth flooring the place the live performance corridor was positioned and immediately paused. It was as a result of he heard individuals’s voices from the underside. Dowook seemed down the railing and despatched down the sunshine from the flashlight on his head.

“Who’s there?”

5 – 6 individuals who had been taking place to the fourth flooring raised their heads up. Dowook shouted loudly.

“Cease! I am from the fireplace station!”

“Hearth station? Firefighter! The constructing is shaking and stuff proper now!”

“You’ll be able to’t transfer downstairs, that’s the place the fireplace is! Evacuation is within the course of the annex on the fifth flooring. Come up right here!”

“Hearth? There is a fireplace right here, too?”

Dowook, who noticed them change instructions, informed Lee Ji-seok.

“I am going to go up and information individuals this manner. Please information them to the annex.”

After finishing the mission division, Dowook ran in the direction of the live performance corridor.

When he arrived on the sixth flooring, he noticed individuals in panic hooked up to the window of the hallway.

Inside, solely the fireplace of the constructing positioned past was seen, and there was no fireplace coming in from slightly below.

Dowook raised his voice in order that even the individuals far-off may hear it.

“Everybody! You need to evacuate now! Go down on this course and observe the firemen’s directions!”

HIs throat had already turn out to be sore as a result of he was not often the kind to shout. Dowook confirmed the motion of individuals and pushed the door to the doorway on the sixth flooring of the live performance corridor.

Bang!

The complete efficiency corridor calmed down without delay because the sweat-covered Dowook stormed into the door.

Even when one roughly glanced round, there have been at the very least 300 individuals.

Though it was a volunteer outfit, solely the mark was barely completely different, so all of them appeared to concentrate on the seriousness of the sudden look of an individual carrying an emergency bag on his shoulder.

Dowook tried to clarify on to the viewers watching him with anxious eyes, however noticed a microphone on the stage.

“Is that working?”

Beneath the stage, the employees carrying headsets nodded.

He went up rapidly and put the microphone to his mouth.

“There may be presently a fireplace on the primary flooring of this constructing. Don’t go right down to the primary constructing as a result of poisonous smoke is rising.”

The murmur unfold in all instructions.

“When you go to the escalator on the sixth flooring, there’s a firefighter who’s guiding the evacuation route towards the annex. Please transfer calmly. We’ll begin evacuating from the entrance seat.”

Whereas the shocked viewers started to maneuver, Dowook as soon as once more introduced the evacuation route via the microphone.

Bzzzt.

-Captain. That is the sphere command middle. Did you enter?

Dowook responded straight away.

“I am within the live performance corridor.”

-I am Lee Ik-hyun, a firefighter who went for the fireplace inspection to Ahyeon Constructing. There’s a facility that permits full broadcasting within the broadcasting management room of the live performance corridor. Evacuation data will also be introduced to those that might not know.

It was information. Dowook, who checked the management room positioned on the rear of the viewers’s seat and on the location of the eighth flooring, instantly moved.

As he was operating up in the wrong way to those that had been evacuating, he noticed individuals urgently strolling out of the management room.

“Sir! What occurred? It’s essential to know one thing as a result of we will not contact the surface in any respect.”

Wanting on the employees go on his neck, he was the CP and chief producer of the cable broadcasting station. Dowook targeted on the mission to evacuate somewhat than explaining the scenario.

“I would like to tell the complete constructing. Are you able to assist me?”

“In fact. PD Yoon take all of the remaining employees out. Sound! There is no time to pack the tools! Simply go down! I’ve acquired fireplace insurance coverage!”

The CP opened the management room door and sat within the central console. After elevating the connection button, he beckoned to Dowook.

“You’ll be able to converse.”

Dowook put his mouth to the microphone and began an evacuation route announcement all through the constructing.

“……It’s best to by no means go to the primary flooring of the primary constructing. The evacuation route is to the annex on the fifth flooring. It is the top of the lengthy hall with a meals court docket.”

He put down the mic and gestured to the CP to evacuate.

When he left the management room, he may see that lots of the viewers had escaped.

“I feel it is performed in time.”’

He’d performed every little thing he may with this a lot. It was the second when slightly sense of accomplishment and aid settled in a nook of his thoughts.

Growth!

The constructing vibrated. The ground was vibrating sufficient to shake vastly, so Dowook misplaced his steadiness and collapsed ahead.

He rolled a number of stairs and struck his shoulders on the railing of the viewers seat.

‘Ouch’

The shock of colliding with the ground got here, however for Dowook extra issues occurred so his thoughts immediately cleared.

All of the lights on the ceiling went out without delay. The complete constructing was blacked out.

Bzzzt.

-Flashover occurred on the primary flooring. The underground combustion level continues to provide warmth. The flames unfold to the second flooring.

Screaming from far and wide informed him of the concern felt by the evacuating individuals.

Darkness. A scenario the place imaginative and prescient was not correctly secured.

Indicators of warning that human casualties may develop uncontrollably if nice chaos got here throughout evacuation made Dowook’s physique numb.

Dowook rapidly acquired up and lit the lantern on the entrance on the sixth flooring.

“The flames are nonetheless on the second flooring! Flip in your cellphone flashlight and transfer!”

Dowook, who turned his head, reached out to the CP, who had fallen like him.

“Are you okay?”

“It is okay, it is okay.”

“Hurry up and go down.”

Dowook confirmed that cellphone lights got here out from right here and there and that the view of the doorway to the sixth flooring was secured, and turned the lantern to the live performance corridor.

He looked for anybody who could not get out and pressed the radio transmission button.

“Staff chief, will this quake arrive once more?”

Bzzzt.

-It should proceed till the underground combustion level is overpowered. Every time, the constructing’s personal fireplace safety system is not going to final and the ground the place fires unfold will enhance.

The third and 4th flooring. Within the worst case, they needed to get out of right here earlier than there have been 2 quakes.

“What about those that could not come out from different flooring?”

-Depart the unavoidable survivors to the latecomers. We’re virtually there.

After strolling slowly down from the management room and checking that there have been no individuals inside, He left the doorway on the sixth flooring.

Bzzzt.

“At the moment on the sixth flooring, the individuals listed below are virtually utterly evacuated.”

Whereas reporting the progress and strolling on the escalator, the door of the emergency exit throughout the hallway immediately opened.

“Daewon-nim!” [T/N: Daewon can refer to a member of a group. It’s used as a descriptor for firefighters, paramedics or volunteer workers. In this case it means a paramedic]

Dowook’s consideration turned to the pressing name.

“Somebody acquired harm!”

“What?”

As he ran to the emergency exit, he noticed a sweaty younger man in his early 20s.

“The place is the injured particular person?”

He opened his mouth whereas respiration roughly along with his fingers on each knees as if he had give you issue.

“On the health club on the 4th flooring. Seon-ah and I helped him out since he was caught underneath some tools, however he misplaced consciousness.”

Dowook turned on the walkie-talkie straight away.

“Discovered a affected person. 4th flooring. We’ll transfer.”

When he went down the emergency exit and opened the door on the fourth flooring, he may really feel the odor of burning, not like upstairs, piercing the tip of his nostril.

“Right here, right here.”

He ran down the darkish hallway counting on the lantern lights. Some time later, he noticed an indication resulting in the health club.

“Seon-ah! Lim-Seon-ah! Daewon-nim is right here!”

A lady in her early 20s, who had her cellphone’s flashlight pointed to the fallen man subsequent to her, turned her head to the younger man’s voice.

“Jin-gu…”

Dowook sat proper subsequent to them and checked the respiration of the person.

The shallow and sluggish inhalation meant a scarcity of oxygen within the mind. There was no seen trauma, and the heart beat was regular.

He requested the 2, taking off the emergency bag he was carrying on his shoulders.

“Did you say he was aware once you found him?”

“Sure. He acquired caught in there and saved shouting for assist.”

He discovered a respirator, put it over the person’s mouth, and hooked up the gadget to examine oxygen saturation on his finger.

When he seemed on the health gadget that fell whereas squeezing the airbag, his abdomen and chest appeared to have been underneath strain.

There have been traces of utilizing a dumbbell rod as a lever together with a bit of kit that seemed appreciable in weight, so Dowook had no alternative however to take a look at the younger man known as Jin-gu once more.

Evacuation broadcasts and steady explosions. It could have been a chaotic scenario, however this was a reasonably good response.

“Is that this particular person okay?”

“He misplaced consciousness as a result of he could not provide oxygen to his mind quickly. If this determine exceeds 95%, he’ll get up quickly.”

Dowook spoke of the affected person’s situation intimately and stopped as a result of he thought the younger man’s face seemed very acquainted.

“Huh?”

It is the identical as Han Min-gyu’s. Dowook requested.

“Do you occur to know Staff Chief Han Min-gyu?”

“Huh? He is my dad.”

As anticipated, it was as he heard from Lee Ji-seok. There was a purpose for responding so calmly to this example.

“Ugh…”

The person opened his eyes on the steady oxygen provide. Dowook took off the respirator and requested.

“Affected person, are you awake?”

Dowook, who confirmed the nodding man was awake, touched his chest. The ribs weren’t damaged.

“Chances are you’ll be in ache, however in the event you do not transfer proper now, you may choke on the thick smoke.”

The affected person, who was attempting to boost his higher physique, groaned.

“My again… It hurts a lot.”

When he sat down and took off the jacket, it was noticed that the affected person’s shoulder muscle groups had been convulsing. The affected person solely talked about his again, however there was an issue along with his biceps and shoulder bones as properly.

Dowook put his hand on the person’s shoulder.

“I am going to simply apply strain on you with a bandage.”

An 8-way bandage methodology firmly mounted the collarbone in place. First support that he did not bear in mind unfolded familiarly in his fingers.

The person, who groaned a number of occasions whereas carrying a bandage on his armpits and neck, seemed slightly higher and checked out Dowook.

“Thanks.”

“It’s thanks to those two who discovered the affected person and reported it.”

“Thanks each. I virtually acquired in bother as a result of the shoulder press immediately collapsed.”

Bzzzt.

-Captain. We’re from the Yongsan Help Staff. I checked that persons are popping out to the shopping center. The place are you now?

A query from the walkie-talkie. Dowook answered straight away.

“The health club on the 4th flooring. Emergency measures for one affected person are over.”

Dowook glanced on the man carrying his jacket once more and continued.

“It appears to be like like we are able to transfer by ourselves, so we’ll evacuate collectively.”

Thanks in your arduous work. See you within the center.

“Did you all hear that? Let’s transfer.”

Dowook led the 2 faculty college students and well being coach to start evacuation.

When he got here out of the hallway, he solely spent a second for emergency measures, however he felt that the smoke on the fourth flooring had thickened.

“Oh, it is hurting my eyes.”

“Crouch down and canopy your mouth with garments. At occasions like this, clear air is 60cm under.”

Lim Seon-ah coughed and requested again.

“Who? Your dad?”

“Yeah.”

Dowook took the lead and put his hand on the door resulting in the emergency exit.

‘Huh?’

The warmth from the doorknob. Dowook hesitated. It was a wierd factor. The floor of the steel needs to be chilly. It was not like there was a fireplace inside…….

‘Rattling!’

Dowook cried out to the three following him.

“Transfer again! Duck!”

Bang!

Even earlier than transferring a couple of steps, the door flew away and caught into the wall. On the identical time, the constructing vibrated as soon as.

Dowook, who threw himself into the hallway, witnessed an amazing warmth rising up from the underside of the emergency exit and burst out in chilly sweat.

The flames had arrived proper under them.

Dowook calmed his coronary heart and turned again.

“Are you all okay?”

Three individuals nodded their heads.

Bzzzt.

-Captain Park Dowook. How’s the scenario?

It was Han Min-gyu’s radio. Dowook answered calmly.

“There was an explosion, however I endured it safely. In a flashover scenario, the fireplace appears to run up the emergency exit.”

-The chimney phenomenon appears to be flocking to the emergency exit. Hurry up and evacuate.

“Oh, the workforce chief’s son is right here with me. Fortuitously, I acquired to a affected person on time as a result of your son’s rescue.”

-What? That punk…….

There was a short silence from the walkie-talkie.

-Please evacuate safely.

“See you exterior.”

When his father’s heavy worries had been conveyed by radio, Han Jin-gu, who was within the again, additionally seemed solemn.

Dowook acquired up and pointed to the course of the escalator.

“Emergency stairs will not work. The smoke retains gathering. We’ll go up the middle.”

After they arrived on the central escalator and seemed down, they might see that black smoke and scorching warmth had been increasing.

‘It is scorching. But it surely’s nonetheless on the third flooring. Let’s hurry up and keep away from it.’

They hurried up the escalator. When he arrived on the fifth flooring, Lee Ji-seok welcomed Dowook.

“Physician!”

“Are you performed evacuating individuals?”

“Sure. There have been no extra individuals popping out this manner.”

“Let’s exit straight away.”

It was after they entered the fifth flooring of the annex, on the route they first entered.

Bzzzt.

-We’re from the Yongsan Help Staff. On the third flooring of the shopping center, however it’s inconceivable to safe a view right here. We now have secured two survivors who’ve fallen whereas trying to find others, and two members are taking place.

Sudden information. Dowook instantly requested on the walkie-talkie.

“What do you imply you may’t see the third flooring of the shopping center?”

– Smoke is flowing into the air flow port and the passageway close to the primary constructing. The smoke amenities appear to have been utterly destroyed by the explosion earlier. Extra rescue groups are coming into, so please evacuate to a smoke-free place for now. It is a suicide to return down right here with out an oxygen tank.

The smoke filling the escape path was like saying that they had been remoted.

Boooom一!

The fourth massive vibration got here.

Signal that the fourth flooring was pierced by fireplace.

The physique started to really feel that the thick smoke was coming in from in all places right away.