On the morning of the 15th, a fire broke out in a 10-story building at the University of Tokyo in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, and a man who smoked a security guard was slightly injured.
The Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo Fire Department are investigating the cause of the fire because it is a building where experiments using chemicals are conducted.
Around 9 am on the 15th, the fire department was notified that a fire was coming from the building on the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.
According to the Tokyo Fire Department, the fire broke out in a 10-story building called the "Pharmaceutical Science Research Building," with parts of the 2nd and 3rd floors burned.
At one point, the flames rose violently, but 45 fire-fighting vehicles were dispatched to engage in activities, and the momentum of the fire had almost subsided.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, a man in his thirties smoked and was taken to the hospital in the fire, but the degree of injury was minor.
According to the investigation so far, there is a device that heats chemicals at a constant temperature on the second floor of this building, and smoke has been witnessed from around the device.
The Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo Fire Department are investigating the cause of the fire by listening to stories from university officials.