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NYC unveils new public e-bike charging sites for delivery workers
NYC is piloting the first public E-Bike charging station that’s open to delivery workers. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.
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NYC Council discuses lithium-ion battery safety
The city council is considering another crackdown on popular e-bike batteries. News 4’s Andrew Siff reports.
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5 hurt in e-bike battery fire in Brooklyn
Investigators say that a fire in Brooklyn that sent five people to the hospital was caused by a lithium ion battery. Marc Santia reports.
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NYC council approves e-bike battery trade-in program
After a series of fatal fires with E-bikes as the cause, the NYC Council has approved of a E-biike battery trade-in program. Myles Miller reporting.
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NYC fire officials probe if e-bike battery is behind 93-year-old's death
New York City fire officials are investigating whether an exploding e-bike battery led to a fire that killed a 93-year-old woman on Friday.
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93-year-old woman killed after fire guts Queens apartment building
Investigators say a 93-year-old woman died on the second floor of her apartment building in Queens. News 4’s Chris Jose reports.
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NYC gets $25M for e-bike charging stations, seeking to prevent deadly battery fires
After a series of fires involving faulty e-bike batteries including a recent blaze that claimed four lives, New York City officials announced Sunday that they are receiving a $25 million emergency grant from the federal government to fund scores of charging stations citywide. Mayor Eric Adams hopes the stations will provide a safer way for delivery workers, who rely on…
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NYC gets $25M for charging stations to prevent battery fires
New York City receives $25M of federal funding in an effort to prevent battery fires. Jen Maxfield reports.
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10 e-bike shops cited in stepped up battery enforcement after 4 killed in Manhattan fire
New York City officials called on the public to help with a crackdown on unsafe e-bike shops after a spate of deadly fires caused by lithium ion batteries, the latest of which killed four people in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Tuesday. In the days since, fire officials have issued citations to 10 e-bike shops for unsafe handling of the batteries. The…
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NYC pledging to step up crackdown on faulty e-bike batteries
News 4’s Andrew Siff reports.
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NYC wants to speed up response times to e-bike battery fires
Mayor Adams announced a new plan to speed up FDNY response times. Erica Byfield reports.
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Four people dead in Lower East Side e-bike repair shop fire
Gaby Acevedo reporting on four people dead in e-bike repair shop fire
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4 dead, 5 hurt in Lower East Side e-bike shop fire: Officials
At least four people were killed and five others were injured after a Manhattan e-bike repair shop went up in flames, according to police and fire officials, as video from the scene showed heavy smoke billowing from the building.
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2 More Die From Washington Heights Fire Sparked by E-Bike Battery, Bringing Total to 4
Two more people have died from injuries suffered during a fire at a Washington Heights apartment building that the FDNY said was sparked an e-bike battery.
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FDNY: E-Bike Battery Sparked Washington Heights Fire That Killed 2 People
Firefighters are sharing a PSA urging New Yorkers to be careful with lithium-ion batteries. Marc Santia reports.
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Washington Heights Fire That Killed 2, Injured 2 Others Was Sparked by E-Bike: FDNY
The FDNY said an e-bike battery is to blame for sparking flames resulting in a Washington Heights apartment fire that left two people dead and critically injured two others.
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4 Critically Hurt in Washington Heights Fire
An e-bike discovered inside the building was removed, but fire department heads did not immediately say if the decide was what sparked the fire. News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.
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Anatomy of a Lithium Ion Battery Fire
There seem to be more and more fires started by lithium ion batteries, with videos of the fires spectacular and frightening. The I-Team’s Chris Glorioso and Telemundo 47 took one of the battery packs to a fire-proof room to learn more about them — and saw that the batteries produce not one blast, but a series of chain reaction explosions.
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I-Team: Anatomy of a Lithium Ion Battery Fire
The I-Team partnered with Telemundo 47 Investiga to give viewers an up-close-and-personal view of how a lithium ion battery fire progresses, minute-by-minute. Recordings how compromising a single battery cell inside the pack, leads to a chain reaction called “thermal runaway.”
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New Federal Push to Prevent Deadly Lithium-Ion Battery Fires
New Yorkers know too well the danger and deadly consequences of these batteries. Just last week, a seven- and nineteen-year-old died in Astora from a fire the FDNY says was sparked by a battery inside a charging e-bike. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports.