While on duty as a Police Officer I saw a vehicle ignite inside a Concrete Multi-Level Parking Garage. Now in this Parking garage the management stressed the number of parking spaces so the space between vehicles is barely enough for person to open their door and exit.
Anyway the Vehicle fire began in the front and it was going good.We used three CO2 Extinguishers in the attempt to put the fire out but since the fire was burning so strong we couldn’t get the vehicles hood up.
We finally had to get to the rear of the vehicle to push it out of its parking space to prevent the nearby vehicles from also joining the fire.
These electric vehicles should not be allowed in Multi-leval parking garages unless there’s a minimum of six feet between them. Once those Batteries ignite all bets are off. It takes a lot of water to extinguish those fires once they’re started.
Fire weakens concrete.
A multi story parking garage should be off limits as it could cause it to collapse......................
A few years back, a certain model of Audi as banned from parking garages for starting up all by itself and crashing thru the walls...............
I was in a DC parking garage last week. Two levels down they had some charging stations.
Just stupid.