‘Let them burn’: How RI firefighters are training to deal with electric vehicle fires
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- Опубликовано: 14 мар 2023
- A Target 12 town-by-town survey of fire departments and the state’s top fire official found the Tesla blaze at Copart was the only electric-vehicle fire firefighters have dealt with in Rhode Island to date.
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The primary fire problem isn't thermal runaway its the toxic and explosive smoke and fire gasses that the lithium battery gives off in a fire. Fire Departments need to stop putting water on these fires because heat turns water to steam which expands the explosive fire gasses that lithium battery fires generate. Every gallon of water that converts to steam produces 1700 gallons of toxic/explosive steam. The only way to prevent this from happening is to use a wetting agent that contains a surfactant. Surfactants are surface active agents that mix in solution with water in a fire hose to make firefighting foam. The best way to apply surfactants is through direct injection from a fire engine that is equipped with an onboard foam injection pump. The surfactant molecules bond the water molecules to the hydrocabons produced in a fire making them too wet to burn or explode and too heavy to remain in the atmosphere to inhale. The battery can then continue to burn until all the energy is discharged without spreading the fire to other combustibles.
Chief Hughes
Battalion 1 (retired)
Chicago FD
The only way to deal with this is to shunt it into a nearby lake or pool. If there is one of course.
Did you see the latest where a EV is burning under water.
No good way put out 1000LBs Lithium .......I'd say don't make fire fighters /tow drivers life harder just stick with good ol hydro carbon Petroleum AKA Oil until they can power the cars with nuclear and /or solar
I'm thinking hot fuel rods would be a similar problem at a junk yard. Along of course with the radiation.
Rhode island roads +EV's= 🔥
Best way to manage an EV fire is to not buy an EV