An electric emergency vehicle belonging to a fire department in Germany caught fire and burnt down the new fire station.
The fire, which occurred on Oct. 16, according to Euro News, started from a vehicle that “contained lithium-ion batteries and an external power connection.” The blaze destroyed nearly a dozen emergency vehicles and caused between $21.5 million and $25.9 million in damage. No one was injured.
The stations, which opened a year ago, didn’t have a fire alarm system, Euro News reported because “experts considered it not necessary.”
I love how the articles are all blaming the lack of a fire alarm system in a fire station … where there is likely someone on duty that would observe a fire or smoke 24/7 … as the real cause of this conflagration.
Nevermind the runaway electric vehicle fire that cannot be extinguished by any method
Nevermind that a fire alarm system would have made no difference whatsoever.
Nevermind that every human escaped the building unharmed.
Nevermind that the entire building and its contents is a total loss.
It looks like 8 bays worth of EV fire engines and vehicles, all of which were turned to slag and toxic waste.
If it ain’t broke, don’t… burn it down?
I wonder, have they learned anything from this disaster? Probably not, after all, as a fire station they already must have had experience with lithium-ion battery fires. They should have known better than to put one in their station.
– However, if they HAD a fire alarm, and there HAD been people there, they could’ve driven the other vehicles out of the station and used fire hoses to soak-down parts of the building near the burning EV, greatly lowering the overall damage cost…
I wonder if the “experts” said that was not necessary either?
Wait!? What? A Fire station with 8 equipment bay doors … and no Firefighters there? That beggars belief.
Meanwhile, domestically, Canadian do-gooders continue to charitably send old fire engines (and busses) to Mexico. There’s lots of needy Canadians (Reserves) that could use them. Mexico has filthy rich drug and people smuggling cartels that can afford brand new fire engines (and busses) for Mexicans.
They should have parked their vehicles outside and not used them until they had everything figured out.
Another version of the self eating ice cream cone!
Tesla burned up this morning in Toronto killing 4 after hitting traffic barrier during free Auto pilot week.
Sure it is a loss, but just think of the carbon dioxide that didn’t enter the atmosphere due to the EV before the EV burned everything.
What kind of a sprinkler system would it take to control an EV battery fire? My guess is that standard systems would see the water vaporize before it even hit the vehicle.
Make the bays waterproof so that they don’t leak.
Fill them from below with enough water to completely cover the vehicle so that it’s totally immersed.
Continually circulate the water through a radiator to get rid of the heat absorbed.
basically, a giant version of this:
http://www.fire-containers.com/electric-vehicle-containment-unit–evcu/
I found it interesting seeing the clip of the guy launching his sea doo with an electric vehicle that went ablaze when in the water and continued to burn while completely underwater.
A building completely full of dense non burning foam. Water is not as effective as it is on regular fires.
Pension seekers who don’t follow the rules they impose on the populace ?
This is my shocked face.
Why, it’s almost like cops committing crimes or something so similarly absurd…. cough… cough…
An electric emergency vehicle belonging to a fire department in Germany caught fire and burnt down the new fire station.
Oh, the irony. HAHA
There are lots of studies over the years on Lithium battery fires. This is one I found general enough
https://publications.iafss.org/publications/fss/8/375/view/fss_8-375.pdf
Note, the fire cannot be put out with water because the fuel and oxider are contained within the battery, just like solid rocket fuel. The reaction is exotheremic and it requires a LOT of watere to reduce the temperature.
L – Electric vehicles parked indoors = non playable character in fantasylandia.
(for illustrations of the lake of fire meme see William Blake’s illustrations in Dante’s Inferno
and there is always the book of Revelations… memes are eternal, so is wisdom.)
I hope Calgary’s mayor Jyoti Gondek doesn’t see this news. “Electric fire trucks?” Calgary needs some of those. Screw the cost. It’s a climate emergency don’tcha know! In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny..”What a maroon!”
Physician heal thyself…
L- The best names for marketing electric vehicles: 1. Thermal Runaway. 2. Firebird. 3. Phoenix .
Add your idea to the list, the most popular should win a prize book e.i. on how to tune a carburetor
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“…Jessop says a dumpster was brought in for the battery pack to be placed in and covered with sand and was taken away to a yard to be safely disposed of because of “thermal runaway and the fact that these can reignite up until weeks and weeks later.”
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/fiery-crash-near-toronto-waterfront-leaves-4-dead-1-injured
Leonardo de Caprio will play lead.