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A lithium battery fire is considered a class B fire, so pouring water on it is not standard procedure. They should have known that in the first place, but if t

A lithium battery fire is considered a class B fire, so pouring water on it is not standard procedure. They should have known that in the first place, but if they had googled it, they would have found out very quickly anyway.

maxerickson 6y ago
Tesla recommends spraying the battery with copious amounts of water. Read all about it: https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders Lithium-ion is different than lithium… (my other comment is a question because I haven't seen any information about what procedures they did follow)
- fallingknife 6y ago
  My point it is 1. firefighters should know this already 2. if they didn't they could have googled it like you just did instead of having to wait around to get in touch with someone from Tesla
  - maxerickson 6y ago
    Yes, my point is that a possible explanation for using 32,000 gallons and calling Tesla is that spraying 3,000 gallons on the battery did not successfully extinguish it.
  - tzs 6y ago
    What you are overlooking is that the correct procedure as documented by Tesla, which is what the firefighters had been doing for four hours, did not stop the fire.
  - exporectomy 6y ago
    Sounds like they did already know this and that's why they did it. If they googled it, they might have got the wrong answer like you did. So your criticisms aren't valid.
detaro 6y ago
Lithium-Ion batteries are class C fires: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/training/coffee_break/061819.html https://www.usfa.fema.gov/training/coffee_break/061819.html Water is used on electric car fires, because you need to cool the thing down and water is the best for that.
- fallingknife 6y ago
  I'm seeing class B: https://resources.impactfireservices.com/how-do-you-put-out-lithium-ion-battery-fire https://resources.impactfireservices.com/how-do-you-put-out-... And class D: https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/safety_concerns_with_li_ion https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/safety_concerns_... Looks like B for batteries and D for lithium metal

maxerickson 6y ago

Tesla recommends spraying the battery with copious amounts of water. Read all about it: https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders Lithium-ion is different than lithium… (my other comment is a question because I haven't seen any information about what procedures they did follow)

fallingknife 6y ago
My point it is 1. firefighters should know this already 2. if they didn't they could have googled it like you just did instead of having to wait around to get in touch with someone from Tesla
- maxerickson 6y ago
  Yes, my point is that a possible explanation for using 32,000 gallons and calling Tesla is that spraying 3,000 gallons on the battery did not successfully extinguish it.
- tzs 6y ago
  What you are overlooking is that the correct procedure as documented by Tesla, which is what the firefighters had been doing for four hours, did not stop the fire.
- exporectomy 6y ago
  Sounds like they did already know this and that's why they did it. If they googled it, they might have got the wrong answer like you did. So your criticisms aren't valid.

detaro 6y ago

Lithium-Ion batteries are class C fires: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/training/coffee_break/061819.html https://www.usfa.fema.gov/training/coffee_break/061819.html Water is used on electric car fires, because you need to cool the thing down and water is the best for that.

fallingknife 6y ago
I'm seeing class B: https://resources.impactfireservices.com/how-do-you-put-out-lithium-ion-battery-fire https://resources.impactfireservices.com/how-do-you-put-out-... And class D: https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/safety_concerns_with_li_ion https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/safety_concerns_... Looks like B for batteries and D for lithium metal