About 100 visitors were evacuated from the Australian War Memorial after a mobile tablet device caught fire in a storage space.
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Firefighters were called to the Campbell building after smoke from the small electrical fire triggered an automatic smoke alarm around 3.30pm.
An ACT Emergency Services Agency spokesman said the small fire went out itself and fire crews took the device away.
A War Memorial spokesman said the First World War galleries were closed briefly and visitors in the immediate vicinity were evacuated.
He said the evacuations didn't affect the memorial's operations and the other galleries remained open to the public.
There wasn't any damage to the surrounding area.
Two fire pumpers and the Hazardous Material Unit were at the building and firefighters were ventilating the affected area.
