But energy is energy. You have to store a lot of energy in a small sized brick in order to move a 2000 vehicle down the road and for 300 miles.
I guess that the same can be said for gasoline. And there is probably more energy stored in a tank of gasoline than a battery pack because gasoline engines are less efficient.
Batteries in EVs are NOT the size of bricks. They can weigh thousands of pounds.
Fires in any vehicle are bad, but the difference between a gasoline fire and a lithium ion battery fire is that the gas fire can be extinguished relatively easily using well understood and practiced techniques, while the lithium ion fires are difficult to extinguish, they can take hours to contain, and they can re-ignite after they are apparently extinguished.