Not an LOL matter; lithium ion battery fires and fire trucks/stations etc.
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First things first, for a shiny new fire station like San Diego's, make sure it has a fire alarm system.
Especially if it has *check notes* an electric fire truck or emergency vehicle anything.Because...well...Quote:
A new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire, causing millions of euros in damage, did not have a fire alarm system.
The fire broke out early Wednesday morning at the Stadtallendorf fire station in Hesse and destroyed the equipment hall and almost a dozen emergency vehicles, according to local media.
Initial estimates put the damage at between 20 million and 24 million. No one was injured.
Local officials told the German news agency dpa that no fire alarm system was installed in the building because experts had considered it not necessary much to the astonishment of many observers now that the station has burned down.Quote:
...The fire broke out on an emergency vehicle belonging to the fire department, which contained lithium-ion batteries and an external power connection.
Again, I hope readers with E-bikes and BEV's take note and store these vehicles outside of their dwellings/homes/apartments. No reason to take the risks.Quote:
This year the number of deaths is down, thank God, but not the number of fires. The difference is where people are storing those bikes.
For once, they are listening to warnings.Quote:
E-bike battery fires are continuing at an alarming rate in New York, but there's a positive twist: The number of people dying has plummeted, the FDNY says.
The reason? People seem to be heeding warnings to keep e-bike batteries outside, where fires are less deadly.
Fires caused by exploding lithium-ion batteries from e-bikes and other micromobility devices used by meal delivery workers are the city's biggest, and newest, fire threat. Last year, 28 people died from such blazes, leading to the deadliest year for fires in the city in two decades.
The number of battery fires hasn't abated. As of Thursday, there were 134 so far this year, which is about the same as last year at this time, according to the FDNY. But the big difference is with fatalities from those fires: 13 at this point last year, and just one so far this year.
Injuries have also dropped dramatically, from 92 to 55.
