The blaze marked the city’s 24th fire caused by lithium ion batteries since the start of the year, the FDNY said.
A 67-year-old woman was critically injured in a massive early-morning Brooklyn blaze caused by e-bike batteries, officials said Tuesday.
The gravely injured woman was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where she is fighting for her life, according to police.FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh later confirmed at a press conference that the fire was caused by “e-bikes and lithium ion batteries.” “There were also many that were charging at the time,” Flynn said of the batteries. “Nobody was watching them charge, so they had charged them overnight.”“In a traditional fire, which develops rather slowly, we believe that the victim would have been able to make their way out,” the fire marshal said. “There were working smoke detectors. There were working sprinklers inside.
A resident, who was not home at the time, had been repairing 50 lithium ion batteries inside the home.“This is a critical safety issue both for New Yorkers and for our members,” Kavanagh told reporters Tuesday. “We are coming at this problem from all angles.”
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