Posted on 01/31/2025 5:45:21 AM PST by george76
California wildfire cleanup challenged by electric and hybrid vehicle batteries..
Highly combustible lithium-ion batteries used in electric and hybrid vehicles are complicating cleanup efforts in the Los Angeles neighborhoods ravaged by wildfire damage.
Phase 1 of the federal cleanup is underway, as surveyors with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) work to remove and dispose of hazardous materials, including lithium-ion batteries found in charred vehicles and decimated homes. The EPA warned that batteries should be considered "extremely dangerous," even if they are believed to be intact, and "can spontaneously re-ignite, explode, and emit toxic gases and particulates even after the fire is out."
The Palisades and Eaton fires aftermath is estimated to require the "largest lithium-ion battery pickup, cleanup, that’s ever happened in the history of the world," EPA incident commander Steve Calanog reportedly told local KNBC. He explained that removing lithium-ion batteries — even those that do not appear damaged — from fire wreckage requires "technical sophistication and care," as hazardous material crews find and deionize the batteries so they can be crushed or safely shipped for disposal.
"We don’t know the long-term effects of all this exposure, and we haven't seen this on this large of a scale and this many electric vehicles," Los Angeles City Fire Capt. Adam VanGerpen told KNBC. "This is an unprecedented amount of electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries in there."
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With the lithium-ion batteries, even if they look like they are intact they could have damage on the inside, so they continue to off gas and the off-gas from these batteries can be toxic to your health
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Besides in electric and hybrid vehicles, lithium-ion batteries can be found in personal electronics, vaping devices, power tools and home energy storage systems,
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the FEDERAL cleanup?........Why are we paying for this? California is the wealthiest state in the union. They are the most ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS state in the union. They can’t clean up their own mess?.................
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What could go wrong.
Clean up their own mess?
That’s what federal taxpayers are for...
FUBAR.
Green turned to brown.
“Nobody saw this coming.”
Californians need to do one thing to save their state.
Just one single, sodding thing.
SECURE YOUR ELECTIONS, CA.
Don’t get me started.
Do you need a jump or a charge?😁
I have visited LA several times and southern California as well.
I was amazed that it didn’t burn more often. California is a semiarid/arid vastly over populated desert. Nothing must be permitted to be rebuilt within the fire plain
‘Extremely disturbing’: High levels of heavy metals at Monterey estuary after lithium battery site fire
I need a horse.
I was born in the wrong century. 😔
Smart humans can make it work.
Dumb humans will burn to a crisp.
Check the meters in your homes.....
Maybe a ICE vehicle with a crank. Horses are a PiTA.
Smart actuaries have determined that LA is an uninsurable risk and have directed their companies to cease insurance renewals
True—but dumb humans who value fish above people and trains to nowhere above desalination plants made it this way.
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