Fire at Ehwa Womans University Station on Subway Line 2 Causes Commuter Disruption

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A fire broke out yesterday evening at Ehwa Womans University Station on Seoul Subway Line 2. No injuries were reported, but trains bypassed the station without stopping for about two hours, causing inconvenience to citizens during their commute home.

Reporter Dong Eunyeong has the details.

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Police block citizens attempting to enter the subway station.

[(Is the subway not running at all here?) Trains are bypassing without stopping. (Is that so? What happened?)]

Around 8:10 PM yesterday, a fire broke out in the machine room on the platform bound for Sinchon at Ehwa Womans University Station on Seoul Subway Line 2.

[Go Ki-su / Mapo Fire Station Incident Response Team Leader: The UPS equipment where the fire occurred is an uninterruptible power supply system that was used to supply power to the platform screen doors during a power outage.]

Due to the fire, 4 out of 270 nickel-cadmium batteries in the machine room were destroyed.

No one was injured, but trains bypassed the station without stopping for about two hours, leaving commuters heading home inconvenienced.

[Seong Minhee / Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul: (The subway) is the only way for me to get straight home, so I am trying to figure out how to get back now.]

[Nam Ban-seok / Guro-gu, Seoul: I guess I have no choice but to take another bus or something. Taking a bus takes much longer. I never expected this. A fire, all of a sudden.]

Police and fire authorities are investigating the exact cause of the fire, focusing on the possibility that it was triggered by aging or external impact on the batteries.

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Around 3:00 AM today, a 25-ton trailer collided with a 7.5-ton cargo truck near the Pyeongtaek-Godeok Interchange on the Pyeongtaek-Jecheon Expressway heading toward Jecheon, in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

The impact of the crash caused the trailer to catch fire, leaving the driver in his 50s, surnamed A, with burns who was then transported to a hospital.

The fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes, and police controlled two lanes of the expressway to handle the accident cleanup.

(Video by: Kim Seung-tae | Video Editing by: Park Na-young | Photo/Video Provided by: Viewer Song Younghoon)
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