At around 3 p.m. on the 26th, a station employee called 119 from Daigo Station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line, reporting that "white smoke is filling the concourse." According to the city fire department, a mobile battery had caught fire, and station employees extinguished it with a fire extinguisher. According to the city transportation bureau, passengers on the platform were temporarily evacuated.
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At around 3 p.m. on the 26th, a station employee called 119 from Daigo Station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line, reporting that "white smoke is filling the concourse." According to the city fire department, a mobile battery had caught fire, and station employees extinguished it with a fire extinguisher. According to the city transportation bureau, passengers on the platform were temporarily evacuated.