“It’s really something that we have never seen before as far as a small fire turning into something like this in a matter of a few minutes,” FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens …
Video shows the fire beginning with a few shooting flames before it fills the entire room.FDNYAn EMS worker and a civilian were seriously hurt when the fire broke out around 10:40 a.m., officials said. Five firefighters also suffered minor injuries.
The explosive blaze was blamed on the scooter’s lithium-ion battery and rose to five alarms, requiring over 50 units and more than 200 firefighters to douse it.The quick-moving fire was blamed on a scooter’s lithium-ion battery.“This really shows you how incredibly serious this can be,” Kavanagh told reporters. “Thanks to the quick work of our members who were here in under 4 minutes, we have not suffered a loss of life.
“This entire building behind me is completely destroyed,” she added. “The roof is caved in. There is nothing left. It’s all because of this one single e-bike. And so we really want to emphasize to the public how much damage can be done by a single e-bike that isn’t compliant, a single e-bike that might not be certified, might be using an illegal battery.”Hodgens said firefighters “were unable to get ahead of” the massive amount of fire “produced by a single battery in just under 5 minutes.
killed six people in the city in 2022, officials said. Those blazes were among 219 started by the batteries last year and left another 147 people injured.to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission about her concerns over the batteries.warning apartment dwellers about fires caused by the batteries, used by the popular e-bikes, scooters and hoverboards.
The guide — which will need to be posted inside apartment complexes by April 30 — urges consumers to immediately stop charging an e-bike and call 911 if there is fire or smoke, battery overheating, leaking or a strange smell or a battery making an odd noise.
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