Battery fire during replacement work disrupts services at Daejeon government data centre
EIR-1319Provisional entry. A 2025 photo caption confirms a fire during battery replacement at the Daejeon institute and an outage of 70 government services; the scale of the fire, any injuries, and the cause are not yet reported. Next update: 26 September 2026.
On the afternoon of 26 September 2025, a fire broke out during battery replacement work at the National Information Resources Management Institute in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon. The institute, under the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, manages government computing resources. This account says 70 government online services were taken offline. The extent of the fire, any injuries, and the cause beyond the fact that replacement work was under way are not reported.
Not reported. The only stated circumstance is that the fire started during battery replacement work.
- Treat battery replacement at a computing site as live electrical work, with isolation and a fire watch agreed before the task starts.
- Sites that host essential public services should keep a backup path so a battery-room fire does not take every service offline at once.
- After a battery fire, state what is known about the work under way and what is still unconfirmed, rather than inferring a cause.
Published 2026-09-26. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.