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Safe Zones in Flooded Areas

You are given a grid representing areas affected by flooding where 0 represents safe areas and 1 represents flooded areas. Write a program that counts the number of distinct safe zones (connected components of 0's) in the grid. A safe zone is connected vertically or horizontally. Input format: - The first line contains two integers, rows and cols (1 ≤ rows, cols ≤ 100). - The next rows lines each contain cols integers (0 or 1) representing the grid. Output format: - A single integer indicating the number of distinct safe zones. Example: Input: 4 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 Output: 3

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