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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,324 posts) Mon Mar 6, 2023, 08:36 PM Mar 2023

Lithium-ion battery blamed for yet another fast-moving fire, New York City officials say

A lithium-ion battery sparked yet another fast-moving fire, this one in New York City on Sunday, leveling a supermarket and neighboring laundromat, authorities said.

Firefighters had water on five-minute-old flames inside Concourse Food Plaza, about 2 miles north of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, but the blaze was already out of control, officials said.

An electric mobility device, possibly an e-bike powered by a lithium-ion battery, is blamed for the five-alarm fire, which was touched off at 10:40 a.m. ET.

"Something that we had never seen before, as far as a small fire turning into something (big) like this in a matter of a few minutes,” FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens told reporters outside the burned-down businesses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lithium-ion-battery-blamed-for-yet-another-fast-moving-fire-new-york-city-officials-say/ar-AA18i9xs

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Lithium-ion battery blamed for yet another fast-moving fire, New York City officials say (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 OP

Yikes! Those bikes are everywhere here (NYC) Drum Mar 2023 #1

I don't think the fact that it was a lithium-ion battery would have had anything to do . . . markpkessinger Jun 2023 #2

Drum

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1. Yikes! Those bikes are everywhere here (NYC)

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Mon Mar 6, 2023, 10:58 PM

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markpkessinger

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2. I don't think the fact that it was a lithium-ion battery would have had anything to do . . .

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Mon Jun 5, 2023, 03:44 PM

Jun 2023

. . . with how fast the fire spread. That would be a matter of the quantity of flammable materials available to burn in the space.

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