No I don't think that's right. From the article: > “This emerging threat has forced local fire departments to divert resources away from hurricane recovery t

No I don't think that's right. From the article: > “This emerging threat has forced local fire departments to divert resources away from hurricane recovery to control and contain these dangerous fires,” Scott said. “Car fires from electric vehicles have proven to be extremely dangerous and last for a prolonged period, taking in many cases up to six hours to burn out.” The concern is not the risk the fires pose to firefighers. The concern is the risk posed by fires diverting the attention of firefighters from other hurricane related matters. The electric car fires are particularly dangerous in this regard because they take much longer to put out, diverting firefighter resources for longer. Every firefighter spraying water on an electric car for six hours is a firefighter not helping people out of flooded buildings, or whatever else they'd otherwise be doing. In the hurricane scenario, electric cars are a unique concern because they catch fire in situations where ICE cars don't; when flooded. In a wildfire, car fires aren't a diversion from fighting the wildfire because it's all part of the same fire. And in a wildfire any car caught in the fire is going to burn until it is a pool of molten aluminum, regardless of what kind of car it was. Replace all the electric cars in a hurricane with ICE, and there will be fewer car fires. Replace all the ICE cars in a wildfire with electric, and there will be just as many car fires. tl;dr: Wildfires burn all cars. Hurricanes burn electric cars specifically.