A huge forest fire broke out at midnight in Pohang . It resulted from one middle school student playing with fire . He lighted a fire on a pile of leaves with a lighter out of curiosity . He resisted on the play even though the friends who were with him at that moment talked him out of it . once it suddenly started spreading extensively , he flinched and called 119 in a hurry and ran away . As this forest fire broke out in the middle of night , it was not easy to extinguish the fire . And the spot where the accident happened was close to a residential area so that the inhabitants were evacuated at that night . Further more , it caused several casualties in one death and seventeen injured . Besides this fire , now Korea is suffering from forest fires in different regions here and there . So , many soiders and fire fighters are struggling to put out the fires . These forest fires were so huge that lots of helicopters were put into the work on it . Unfortunately , one of the helicopters crushed to the ground druing the fight with the forest fires . It leads to the death of two helicopter pilots .