DAEJEON, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Forest Service has announced plans to distribute “STEP-UP,” a wearable firefighting robot equipped with GPS, in areas along the eastern coast that are highly susceptible to large forest fires. With an investment of 200 million won, the STEP-UP project aims to boost the safety and firefighting capabilities of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Chungcheong Province and the Chungnam Fire Service Headquarters completed the development of a high-altitude fire extinguishing system using collective drones and carried out demonstrations on Thursday. At the demonstration, held at the National Fire Service Academy in Cheonan, two scout drones and three firefighting drones were deployed to [...]
CHEONAN, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A drone is seen climbing through the air carrying a hose, spraying water at the site of a fire 15 meters up in a building. South Chungcheong Province and the Chungcheong Fire Service Academy carried out a successful demonstration of a firefighting drone on the training grounds of the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean National Fire Agency announced on Thursday that it will now be able to deploy firefighting drones in emergency situations following measures that lifted restrictions on drone use. From now on, the fire agency can acquire speedy approval from local offices of aviation by phone to use [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Thanks to the implementation of the Fire Safety Tax in 2015, experts say the measure has allowed firefighting squads to own 100 percent of the necessary key firefighting and rescue equipment needed to carry out their operations. According to the Korea National Fire Agency, funds totaling 907 billion won [...]