Nope, story says it was not a cellphone for sure. I'm thinking an e-cig.
..or an IED-Cig? hehe..
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I doubt it was an “e-cig” itself, that is pretty rare. Usually its people that have loose battaries that have no idea they are supposed to be in a case so they don’t short.
Even in the devices with a battery short it’s almost always a device with no regulator, meaning that the device is turned on and never turned off. That can’t be done with lithium-ion batteries. Flashlights, weapon lights, laptops, phones, what have you can cause the same thing.