Posted on 10/12/2022 2:29:28 PM PDT by moovova
FORT MYERS, FLORIDA — The aftermath of Hurricane Ian has highlighted the dangers of electric cars. Florida Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis has issued a warning regarding the severe fire hazard posed by these vehicles in combination with salt water.
“I joined North Collier Fire Rescue to assess response activities related to Hurricane Ian and saw with my own eyes an EV continuously ignite, and continually reignite, as fireteams doused the vehicle with tens-of-thousands of gallons of water,” Patronis told Florida Politics on Sunday.
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I saw a Marine F-4 magnesium wheel fire once. The fire crew put it out fast (with foam), but the F-4 was heavily damaged.
Yeah, foam would work with a wheel.
But the aluminum superstructure of a small-boy combatant ship can’t be immersed in foam. So there’s that.
It’s often a waste of water, because the burning metal can extract the oxygen it needs to burn and reignite from the very water being used to put out the fire!
Dropping the burning hulk into a car-sized tank of water will predictably bring the fire to an end, since total immersion of the big battery compartment in water will quickly and efficiently remove heat from the equation by conduction and not let it creep back up to ignition temperature.
I didn’t put it there, the fire department did, go take it up with them.
No, but well, if the water is not working to extinguish the flames, then pouring water on a malfunctioning, high voltage electrical source is probably not going to accomplish anything particularly good or safe...
(Microwave Oven ping sound) - My grasshopper stew is done!
Ice car gasoline fire:most end in minutes. Once out, stay out, burn at 1,500 degreesF.
EV fire: Require very specialized equipment to extinguish, often burn for hours, can reignite up to days later, release much more toxic gasses, burn at 5,900 degreesF.
There is nothing to stop it but time (immersion) sans the correct tools. It’s simple physics. They know what to do but are obviously ill-equipped.
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/11/21/rosenbauer-ev-battery-fire-extinguisher-system/
You don’t pour water on an electrical fire. You would use a CO2 extinguisher.
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