Posted on 09/18/2022 6:03:14 PM PDT by karpov
A lithium battery from her sibling’s new electric scooter caused the blaze that killed an 8-year-old girl in Queens, fire officials and neighbors said Sunday — as residents recalled the frantic futile effort to save the child.
“The firefighter took the girl out first. He was carrying her in his arms,” said resident Daniel Calle, 27. “She looked like she was asleep.
“They were working diligently on her. They were pumping her chest. … But she wasn’t moving.”
Shaken resident Dora Dellis, 72, added, “There were about six or seven people around her.
“The [landlord’s wife] was crying.”
She was saying, “I don’t care about the house. I don’t want the girl to die,” the witness said.
Fire officials said a scooter caused the blaze, and the landlord added that the electric device had been recently bought by the family for one of the little girl’s teenage brothers.
“They just bought that stupid thing,” the landlord said of the scooter. “I think they got it a month, a month and a half ago. Most of the time, the bike is here. [The girl’s dad] told me it was for his son but he uses it, too.”
The dead girl, identified as Stephanie Villa Torres, suffered smoke inhalation and was pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Hospital of Queens, authorities said.
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“Those batteries, they gotta do something about those batteries because it’s too many lives they are losing,” she added.
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‘’What could possibly go wrong?’’
So they said as the “Unsinkable’’ Titanic’’ slid down the slipways.
A buddy of mine once dropped a socket wrench onto a good car battery.
Wouldn’t you know it the wrench fell in such a way the thing land on both battery terminals at once.
Man, the shower of sparks was like The Fourth Of July!
I would rather take my chances with the 1973-1987 Chevy pickups with the exploding gas tanks that Lyin’ Brian Williams warned us about.
I must tell you, there is no comparison. I have often welded with a car battery and cables. And, I know my way around direct current as would the son of an electrical engineer. Try if you you must.
You know your way around direct current yet you accidentally poked a hole in a rechargeable battery and started it on fire?
I can’t reconcile those two.
Don’t be an troll.
Not only am I not a troll, but I changed a battery like that myself, and, knowing of the danger, was extremely careful to avoid damaging the battery while removing it.
I also made sure to dispose of the battery properly, knowing that just throwing it in the trash could result in the trash can or a garbage truck going up in flames.
I think before I do.
You are a troll and an asswipe. So move along before I focus on you.
Wow. Any other insults? Maybe you should have asked your daddy how to replace a battery without starting a fire?
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