These batteries are everywhere – cell phones, laptops, scooters, bikes, power tools and vaping devices. Increasingly, they’re causing fires.
Lithium-ion batteries can erupt in violent explosions and out-of-control fires, and toxic chemicals can be released rapidly.
Anker warns that its 334 MagGo Battery PowerCore 10K, Anker Power Bank, and Anker MagGo Power Bank can potentially melt, ...
Anker has issued a recall notice for its Anker 334 MagGo Battery (PowerCore 10K, model number A1642), Anker Power Bank (model ...
It came after the National Fire Chief Council warned fires involving lithium-ion batteries were "a disaster waiting to happen ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — An evacuation order was temporarily issued in Campo Saturday as crews battled a vegetation fire that had the potential to spread up to 1,000 acres, said Cal Fire San Diego.
Four people were displaced Thursday by a blaze that the Auburn Fire Department said is likely the second recent one caused by a lithium-ion battery. Firefighters were dispatched to 32 Liberty St ...
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (KGTV) — A development center was one of the businesses that had to evacuate after a fire broke out at a lithium-ion battery storage facility in Escondido on Thursday afternoon.
A spokesman for the Escondido Fire Dept. reported at 2:30 Friday that the Lithium Battery fire at the SDG&E Yard located at 571 Enterprise St. is 95% out. “But we want to be one hundred percent out ...
A fire that broke out at a San Diego Gas and Electric-operated battery storage facility in Escondido Thursday has prompted several schools in the area to close. STORY: https://fox5sandiego.com ...
More EV firefighting equipment will be provided to fire stations in 2025, and automakers including Hyundai and Kia will be asked to install battery management systems on older model EVs and to ...
Since some people's workloads (and general convenience) call for multi-day battery life, some phones are much more heavily geared toward endurance than others. Putting our expertise to work ...