Fire department warns about charging batteries after 2 house fires in Blue Springs

KMBC News ^ | June 30, 2022 | Brian Johnson

[gitmo]

Only use batteries purchased from the device's manufacturer.

[Seruzawa]

IOW, stop buying Ebay crap.

[Fireone]

Sound advice, for sure.
“for Milwaukee M18” is not the same as “Milwaukee M18”.

[Rebelbase]

I don’t charge batteries overnight anymore.

[Waverunner]

A friend has bought his wife a Tesla when she retired.
It charges overnight in his garage.
If it ever catches fire, he knows his house is gone. Lithium burns like magnesium when ignited. A fire captain friend said you would have to dump 5000 gallons of water on the battery pack in the first minute of the fire to put it out. By the time the fire truck cleared the station door the whole house would be consumed. He advised my friend to jump in the pool with a towel over his head.

[COBOL2Java]

Only use batteries purchased from the device's manufacturer.

You mean Chinese products are defective?

Say it ain't so!

[mewzilla]

And ChiCom crap.

[petitfour]

But at least they’re saving the planet by purchasing an electric vehicle.

So if we can ever afford an EV, we should charge it in a building not attached to the main house on our plantation?

[NWFree]

Lithium batteries - the gift that keeps on burning 🔥 🤪

[Lazamataz]

So electric vehicles have yet another downside.

[D Rider]

Do not park a Tesla in a garage. Park at least 10 feet away from any structure. If the structure has combustible siding or facia/roof material, park on street or at least 20 feet from structure.

[TexasGator]

” Lithium burns like magnesium when ignited.”

EV batteries do not have lithium metal.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes. When I was younger I used to skimp. Now I only buy electrical mains accessories which bear the UL or ETL laboratory certification mark.

[Red Badger]

Hopefully with water in it....................

[bigbob]

Chicom li-ion batteries are always fakes,with capacity much less than advertised and often a different chemistry.

To their credit, many do have descriptive brand names, such as UltraFire.

[Cold Heart]

It was an Amazon fire

[luckystarmom]

Our Prius battery caught on fire.

I thought someone had pranked us and spray painted the windows black. I opened the door and smoke billowed out.

I’m thankful no one was in it when it caught on fire, and it was parked outside.

My husband still got another Prius, but I told him it could never be parked inside. He agreed.

[butlerweave]

I had to get up late last night to unplug my Drill battery ,D’oh

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Only use batteries purchased from the device's manufacturer.

The reason is that when you buy the cheap ChiCom knock-offs such as those sold by Amazon, the third-party suppliers save money by omitting the safety circuit that prevents overcharging and over-discharging.

[gitmo]

Yikes !!