Firefighter Close Calls | Firefighter Close Calls is the home of the Secret List. The worlds most visited website focused exclusively on firefighter survival

Home of the Secret List

BROOKLYN BLAZE LINKED TO E-BIKES AND SCOOTERS WITH LI-ION BATTERIES!

 Brian Kazmierzak    May 3, 2022    No Comments

A fire that erupted in a food market in Brooklyn early Monday has been linked to lithium ion batteries used in e-bikes and scooters, FDNY fire marshals have found.

The blaze in the Xin Hao Supermarket on Seventh Ave. near 54th St. in Sunset Park just after 7 a.m. was caused by a malfunction near a charging station where scooters, bikes and the batteries were being stored, a city official said.

The shop was selling the scooters and bikes, the official said. Firefighters pulled nearly two dozen of the devices from the fire, officials said.

Fire Marshals were investigating whether the e-bike batteries ignited or contributed to the fire. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)

About 150 firefighters responded to the blaze, which consumed most contents inside the market and damaged some of the four-story brick building structure as it spread from the first floor into the second and into the space between the roof and the top floor.

Two men who looked like twins and shared the same name decided to finally take a DNA test to see if they were related. Their results surprised…

“Units stretched multiple lines into a stubborn fire,” Deputy Assistant Chief John Sarrocco said at the scene. “Our units did a great job, cut holes in the roof and extinguished the fire.”

The fire went to a second alarm at 7:23 a.m. and a third alarm at 7:47 a.m., the FDNY said.

The blaze erupted in the Xin Hao Supermarket on 7th Ave. near 54th St. in Sunset Park just after 7 a.m. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)

One civilian was treated at the scene and two firefighters were taken to Maimonides Medical Center with minor injuries, officials said.

Nearly two dozen e-bikes were pulled from the fire. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)

“Normally, these scooters, if they are involved in any fire, their batteries can overheat and cause spontaneous combustion so the Fire Department procedure is to pull them out of the building and make sure they are in open air,” Sarrocco said.

The e-bikes were also being used for deliveries from the market, Sarrocco said.

An investigation is continuing.

 HAZMAT, MISCELLANEOUS, Modern Fire Behavior, News, Safety and Survival

==
FIREFIGHTER
CANCER
==
PROSTATE & RELATED
CANCERS
INFORMATION:

also check the most current issue of the secret list

Click Here

Sign Up for Secret List

For Email Newsletters you can trust.

Please Visit
Our Sponsor

GordonGraham.com


YOU NEED THIS BOOK!
(Trust Us)

400+ PAGES.
90+ CONTRIBUTORS!
100% of the royalties from the sales of "PASS IT ON" will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship Fund.
CLICK ABOVE TO ORDER YOUR COPIES TODAY!


 

Pass It On: The Second Alarm

BillyG-book-170


 

Posters

Click to Print

In Memory Of

fdnyClick this patch

helmet

ragusa

Click Here for The 9/11 Widows’ and Victims’ Families Association

ssc

Click Here: Skyscraper Safety Campaign

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Apparatus
    • Crashes
    • Struck By
  • Close Calls
  • Contact Us
  • Drills
  • FF Cardiac Health
  • FIRE & EMS CIVIL DISORDER
  • EMS Close Calls
  • Fire Communications
  • Firefighter Cancer
  • Firefighter History
  • Firefighter Staffing
  • Gallery
  • LODD Calendar
  • Modern Fire Behavior
  • NIOSH Lessons Learned
  • NIOSH LODD Reports
  • Pass It On
  • Behaviorial Health
    • Behaviorial Health Resources
    • Behaviorial Health Information
  • Safety and Survival
  • Secret List
  • SOG’s
Submit Your
CLOSE CALLS /
NEAR MISS

 

LODD STATS

YearTotals
202252
2021139
202096
201957
201885
201793
201689
201586
201494
2013101
201283
201181
201087
200993
2008118
2007118
Tweets by @alertpage

Search Site

Contact Info

Email BillyG
[email protected]

Email Weekly Drill
Suggestions to

[email protected]


Copyright © 2003-2022

Copyright Disclaimer: This non-commercial, non-profit and free use website is for the exclusive purpose of firefighter safety, health and survival. All photographs in these posts are either submitted or from aggregate Google and are used in the postings for the purposes of education, satire, and parody, criticism, news reporting, research, and scholarship consistent with 17 USC §107 and never due to intentional or malicious misuse of a copyright.