New York, fire triggered by the battery of an electric bike: two children died – time.news

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Of Paul Foschi

The fire in a multi-family building in Queens. The flames caused by the explosion of the battery of a charging ebike

Electric bicycles again at the center of controversy for the risk Of set fire triggered by malfunctions of battery. To draw attention to these new widespread means of movement the turn over which caused the death of two kids in the afternoon of Monday 10 April a New York.

As reported by the main US news agencies, thefire flared up in a building in the Queensprobably triggered by one ebikes putting into load at the main entrance of a building multi-family Second John Hodgenscity fire chief, i FIRE they arrived at the site of the fire just three minutes after the call, but there‘intervention made very difficult by the situation created with the flames that engulfed the stairs of the building reaching the second floor where in a apartment were present at that time a man with his five children: the father and three boys managed to save themselves by jumping out of a window, for two kids – trapped in the flames – there was instead no escape route.

Considered the timed of our arrival at the site of the fire, if the fire hadn’t started from the bicycles we would have been able to get the situation under control without any problems explained the head of fire fightersunfortunately for these battery fires of electric bikes they are real ones fire explosions and the flames engulf everything within a very short time. Since the beginning of the year in New York have been registered 59 fire triggered by electric bike batteries, with five dead.

April 11, 2023 (change April 11, 2023 | 01:11)

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