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Electric Bus Burst Into Flames During East Coast Heatwave – One Day After Connecticut Gov. Requires All Future State Vehicles to Run On Electric Power
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| July 24,2022
| Jim Hoft
Posted on 07/24/2022 12:29:41 PM PDT by Hojczyk
On Saturday morning, during the heatwave that swept the East Coast, a new electrically powered public transportation bus caught on fire as it sat in the bus parking lot, according to fire officials.
The Hamden Fire Department was dispatched to the CT Transit bus depot in order to extinguish the fire that had spread throughout the electric bus.
According to the authorities, the lithium-ion battery was responsible for the fire that broke out on the electric bus.
“Lithium-ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites,” the fire officials said in a statement. “Exposures were protected at the scene.”
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KEYWORDS: automotive; batteryexploded; ct; evbatteryfire; evbusfire
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:29:41 PM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
“Exposures were protected at the scene.”
HUH?
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:31:47 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: gitmo
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:33:19 PM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
Wowza!
We just had a corn silo explode...spontaneous combustion...in the next town over. This is in PA, where we have had 97* days all week.
Heatwave.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:36:34 PM PDT
by
miserare
( Impeach Joe Biden!)
To: Hojczyk
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:36:56 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
(UF)
To: Hojczyk
Bwahahahaha. Go Connecticut! All part of the liberal fantasy that continues in my state. Morons.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:37:04 PM PDT
by
ModernDayCato
(Noah was a conspiracy theorist until it started raining. )
To: Hojczyk
So in the areas where Sunshine is plentiful electric buses are too dangerous to us e cause th batteries will burst into flames.
Gotcha.
It’s a brave new world.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:38:21 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
To: Hojczyk
Yes, that looks to be more environmentally friendly.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:38:26 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Hojczyk
Na-aaatsa busfahhr raght thar boyee lemme tellyeh!
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:38:50 PM PDT
by
know.your.why
(If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
To: Hojczyk
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:39:53 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
To: miserare
Yikes! We have 97 degrees pretty much all summer here in SC.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:42:11 PM PDT
by
Toespi
To: Hojczyk
Golf kart fanbois will not be amused.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:42:47 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: Hojczyk
If these buses burst into flames in a heatwave, I wonder what they will do when it’s below zero in the winter.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:42:51 PM PDT
by
srmanuel
To: Hojczyk
Putting additional stress on the power-grid. What can go wrong?
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:43:34 PM PDT
by
CFW
To: Hojczyk
ROTFLMFAO!!!
Too bad the so-called “governor” wasn’t on board and in the back of it.
Constitution State? My arse, on it’s worse day after a heavy beans & hotdog meal, is more “constitutional”.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:46:30 PM PDT
by
lgjhn23
(Pray for America....)
To: TexasGator
There goes its low carbon footprint.
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:48:58 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: gitmo
Hmm...For Sale: pre-owned bus. Some wear and tear, could use a coat of paint...
To: Secret Agent Man
“There goes its low carbon footprint.”
Fossil fueled, not EV.
To: Hojczyk
They need amber to make putting these fires out easier
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:52:09 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
To: Pollard
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posted on
07/24/2022 12:54:01 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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