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Originally Posted by M_Six
The truly disturbing part was that fire. 4 hours and 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish it. WTF? And how much of all that runoff was toxic?
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You wonder why Li-Ion battery containing products ship Hazmat? This is why!
All that water was serving to cool the batteries that were in thermal overrun. You gotta get them cool in order to stop the chain reaction and self-ignition.
32k gallons also sounds really impressive but when you figure that a typical pumper truck can deliver 1500 GPM, you're talking more than 20 minutes of hosing that thing down to bring it under control! Crazy!