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NYC lithium ion battery fires: Could battery bags for e-bikes help?
Could battery storage bags reverse NYC’s rising trend of e-bike fires? Some leaders think so, and now they want the city to get on board. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.
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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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Nearly a dozen people injured in separate Bronx fires
Nearly a dozen people were recovering late Sunday after two different fires in the Bronx. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports.
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Nearly a dozen people injured in separate Bronx fires
Nearly a dozen people were recovering late Sunday after two different fires in the Bronx. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports.
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1 dead, 9 hurt in Bronx high-rise fire sparked by e-bike's lithium ion battery: Police
One person was killed and nine others were injured when a fire blamed on an electric bicycle battery tore through a Bronx apartment, officials said Monday.
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Long Island neighborhood fighting proposed battery facility
A Long Island community is trying to stop a lithium-ion battery facility from opening in the neighborhood. Greg Cergol reports.
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FDNY commissioner to testify in DC about battery fires
FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh Kavanagh is planning a trip to DC to convince the Consumer Product Safety Commission that eBIKE and scooter batteries need to be treated like batteries in other electronics. Chris Glorioso reporting.
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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.”