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| NO : 309 |
Date : Feb/09/11 16:40 |
| Name : Manger /-- |
E-mail : <info@homestay.com> |
| Subject : Sometime Firefighter, Sometime Icefighter |
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Do the firefighters in Korea expect this in their job description? Guess in a 24/ 7 world and in a temperate zone country, one has to expect the unexpected. Firefighters in Seoul and other cities around Korea are likely to be pretty busy hacking down icicles this winter. So thanks, gentlemen for risking life and limb and suffering the chill.
Coming from a country which only has one season, it's easy to overlook winter hazards like falling icicles. Wouldn't want to be passing by when one of these decides to drop on the heads of passers-by. Have to remind myself to avoid buildings with frosty facades - fascinating but diabolical like the White Witch of Narnia.
Caption from source: Rescue officers of a fire station are removing a huge icicle after a water tank of a residential building in Changcheondong, Seoul froze and burst in freezing temperatures. (Yonhap News)
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