Over 36,000 gallons of water used for electric vehicle fire on I-65 [Alabama]

WSFA TV-12 ^ | Dec. 26, 2023 at 12:03 PM CST | Updated: 11 hours ago | By WSFA 12 News Staff and Sally Pitts

[Bob434]

He good news thouhg is that it wasn’t 36,100 gallons

[The Great RJ]

Consider the toxic and hazardous material in that run off water.

[BradyLS]

I though the way to put out an EV fire was to smother it with dirt?

[nuconvert]

I assume someone is working on a foam or some other method of putting out these battery fires.

[PGR88]

My friend is the fire chief of a neighboring town. I asked him: how do you deal with EV fires?

His reply: let it burn.

[Red Badger]

There is technology that can help reduce the amount of water needed to put out an electric car fire, but the chief said it is too expensive for the volunteer fire department. “The device that Montgomery fire department has is about $35,000. That’s over a third of my budget each year. And that’s just undoable for us right now,” he said

[Red Badger]

Lugnuts roasting on an open fire...................

[Red Badger]

It’s a chemical fire, so it won’t go out even buried under dirt.

It’s like Chernobyl, it’s still burning under all that concrete...............

[BereanBrain]

If a gas car catches fire, do they print how many gallons was used to extinguish it?

[Red Badger]

Pine Level Fire Chief Austin Worcester said a typical car fire can take between 300 to 1,000 gallons to put out,

[Carriage Hill]

LOL.

[V_TWIN]

“I though the way to put out an EV fire was to smother it with dirt?”

Red Badger sent me a link to a video a week or so ago showing a submerged tesla at a boat ramp burning under water....... BURNING UNDER WATER......I doubt dirts gonna do much. 😏

[Bob434]

Fireb,anklets to the rescue /s

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The driver was uninjured and had escaped the vehicle before the fire department arrived...”

Because, Why? They would’ve locked him in the burning vehicle and LAUGHED at him? *SMIRK*

[Red Badger]

DUI..............

[Iceclimber58]

I was a volunteer firefighter for a number of years.
I remember putting out car fires with a brush rig.
250-300 gal.

[ShadowAce]

As a volunteer firefighter, our training for electrical vehicle fires (in our cases, those would be trains), was chemical—keep water far away as all it does it conduct electricity.

[Red Badger]

Not much you can do to extinguish a chemical fire. Let it burn itself out and keep a safe distance.................

[telescope115]

My Dad was the chief of a volunteer fire department for 20 years. I just KNOW that he would’ve said the same thing.