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An electric car burned out in the underground parking lot of an apartment in Sejong City. The charger was plugged in, but it was already fully charged, and I'm seeing why it's on fire in the fruit tree.

I'm Hwa Kang Yoon.

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The smoke from the parked car swells up, and dense smoke fills up quickly and the fire rises quickly.

At 4:20 am today, a fire broke out in the Kona electric car that was built in the underground parking lot of an apartment in Sejong Kochi.

[Sejong Fire Department Firefighter: Because the tenant smells like burning, I told the report to the management office. .]

No one was injured, but some of the charging facilities and cars were burned and dozens of residents were evacuated.

The underground parking lot of the apartment is on fire.

The car was parked right here, and the heat of the fire melted all the way down to the ceiling insulation.

It was confirmed that the charger was plugged into the car at the time of the fire but was not charging.

[Ho-Geun Lee / Daedeok University Department of Automotive: If the breaker of the charger does not go down, the probability that it is a charger error is considerably lowered. .]

Police send fired vehicles to the National Institute of Scientific Investigation to analyze the cause of the fire.

On the 28th of last month, in Gangneung, Gangwon-do, a fire or a car burned in an electric car of the same type, and one person smoked and received medical treatment.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-chul, Yoon Sang-hoon, TJB, Video editing: Yumira)