Rain and cooler temperatures are helping South Korean fire crews as they battle the country’s worst-ever wildfires as the governor of the hardest-hit region called for overhauling response strategies to respond to the climate crisis that he says

Overnight rain helped douse some of South Korea’s worst-ever wildfires, authorities said today, as the death toll from the unprecedented blazes raging

ANDONG, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korean authorities have contained the main blazes in the country's largest forest fire on record, a minister said on Friday, as rain and better weather allowed more helicopters to fly and dump water, dousing the flames.