Posted on 01/25/2025 12:16:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
An electric vehicle caught fire in Ojai on Saturday, prompting evacuation and shelter-in-place orders in a nearby residential area.
The vehicle, the maker of which not identified, caught fire due to thermal runway, according to the fire department. Thermal runway, a “challenging and hazardous condition,” is a process that occurs when a battery uncontrollably reaches high temperatures incredibly quickly.
The department said the safest approach to such a blaze is to let it burn in a controlled environment. Direct extinguishment can exacerbate the fire, authorities said.
The orders were expected to last about 3 hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Can we PLEASE retire “shelter-in-place”? How about using plain English: “Stay inside your damn homes?” Or “Don’t go outside?”
“Direct extinguishment can exacerbate the fire” — then I guess it wasn’t really “extinguishment,” was it? Were they using gasoline to extinguish the fire?
Government’s fault because they’re ordering everyone to buy the Time Bombs
Thermal runway, a “challenging and hazardous condition,” is a process that occurs when a battery (uncontrollably) reaches high temperatures incredibly quickly.
Technology in action huh Moe.
EVs being cooked is the excuse that Los Angeles uses to disallow their citizens to return to their homes. What they won’t mention is that many, maybe most, of these homes have safes which probably survived the fire.
Wave of the future, they are!
“Government’s fault because they’re ordering everyone to buy the Time Bombs”
How do these “fires” help to “Save Da Erf”?
“Can we PLEASE retire “shelter-in-place”? How about using plain English: “Stay inside your damn homes?” Or “Don’t go outside?””
So with you on this!
“Safe and effective.”
“...a process that occurs when a battery (uncontrollably) reaches high temperatures incredibly quickly.”
Believe “The Science”.
In this case it is pretty much “settled”.
Gov’t is like Melvin Udall’s criteria for women:
NO REASON AND NO ACCOUNTABILITY!
Can we PLEASE retire “shelter-in-place”? How about using plain English: “Stay inside your damn homes?” Or “Don’t go outside?”
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I’m with you. I hate that term. It’s Orwellian and condescending. I’m not a sheep and I can use my head and common sense.
Does “shelter-in-place”include setting the Claymores on the perimeter?
shelter-in-place orders in a nearby residential area.
So they know what pile of ash is who?
Very simple. Shelter in place means do NOT race to your home if you are in a safe location and your home is not. If you are in the shopping mall and there is nuclear fallout, racing to your home is not such a smart idea.
“...and even cell phones are vulnerable to this...”
At least while charging, I keep my cell phones on a 12” x 12” rock “tile” spaced 1/4” inch above the surface of whatever it is on and away from combustibles.
Lithium is nothing to fool with.
Oh bother said Pooh as he fired the Claymores!
Regards
alfa6 “>}
Emergency responders speak in a common language in order to help prevent errors and miscommunications.
Wiki has a good write up on the "Shelter-in-place" term, and it begins with...
Shelter-in-place ...is the act of seeking safety within the building one already occupies, rather than evacuating the area or seeking a community emergency shelter.
Concise, straight forward, and effective.
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