Reported 7 months ago
In a recent fire incident in New Taipei City's Shenkeng area, a warehouse storing a large quantity of electronics and lithium batteries caught fire, emitting a foul odor. Despite small lithium batteries of devices like phones and laptops potentially being extinguished with dry powder fire extinguishers, larger lithium batteries in items such as electric scooters and cars require massive amounts of water to control the fires, with firefighting needing 40 times more water than usual. The complexity of fighting lithium battery fires is further emphasized by incidents like the 2022 accident involving artist Jimmy Lin's Tesla vehicle, where the battery modules exploded one after another, requiring extensive water cooling to avoid reignition.
Source: YAHOO