This photo, provided on Friday by the Cheongyang Fire Station, shows the damaged storehouse at Cheongyang County in South Chungcheong Province.

A warehouse filled with packaged goods was destroyed in a fire that broke out late Thursday night in Cheongyang County, South Chungcheong Province.

Based on surveillance camera footage, the local fire station suspects that a battery of an electric kickboard may have been the cause of the fire that started at around 11:55 p.m. It was being charged at the time of the incident.

As a result, the building and the products inside, worth about 46 million won ($33,600), were severely damaged. There were no casualties.

More than 30 firefighters as well as fire trucks rushed to the scene where they put out the fire at around 12:19 a.m.

It is unknown what type of battery was installed in the electric kickboard. But lithium-ion batteries are the most common type of power supply used in such devices.

Just last week, a fire, suspected to have been caused by an e-bike battery explosion, killed a woman and injured a man at a residential building in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province.

According to a report released by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety in February, electric bicycles and kickboards were responsible for 138 fires in 2022, up from just seven in 2017. Most of the incidents in 2022 (87.8 percent) were caused by their batteries.

As electric bicycles continue to grow in numbers around the world, so too have worries over the safety of their batteries.

According to an Australian media report, Thursday, four people escaped an intense house fire in Sydney, with police investigating whether an e-scooter on charge caused the blaze.