New York City officials on Sunday battled a five-alarm fire that was determined to have been caused by a lithium-powered e-bike battery.
New York City firefighters on Sunday battled aFire Department responded to the fire around 10:41 a.m. Sunday morning at 2096 Grand Concourse in the Bronx. More than 200 members from over fifty units, including Fire and EMS were on scene, Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said. Five firefighters, one member of the EMS, and one civilian were injured.
Kavanagh said there was"extraordinary damage," with an entire building completely destroyed and the roof caved in"all because of this one single e-bike." Chief of Fire Operations John Hodgens said firefighters stretched the hose line into the building and started to extinguish the fire but were"unable to get ahead of it." "It had spread quickly into the void spaces of the building and took off from there. These buildings are old and the lumber and when you expose that aged lumber, to fire, it quickly spreads throughout the entire building," Hodgens said.
Fire Commissioner Kavanagh said Mayor Eric Adams' administration is"coming at this problem from every single angle," including working with the City Council and the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission on additional regulations for the batteries and educating the public on their proper use and storage.
"These are incredibly dangerous devices, and we must make sure that members of the community are handling them properly and using them safely," Kavanagh said at a briefing on public safety.Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime,Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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