These fires are especially difficult for rural volunteer fire companies to handle; BESS fires in particular can require days of 24-hr monitoring and hosing down to cool the containers. Volunteers are balancing firefighting, jobs, and family obligations; they can’t be expected to be on-site for days at a time. This means mutual-aid companies will have to be called in. Water can be a major problem for many rural locations; you can’t use water directly on a li-ion battery fire, but you need it to keep everything around it from igniting. Usually it has to be brought in by tanker, and not every fire company can spare a tanker for several days. These fire companies have to provide coverage for other fires and emergencies at the same time they’re fighting BESS fires—how are they supposed to do that? What about evacuations in rural areas? Communications are often quite limited, and populations may be widely scattered.
We have a developer attempting to put a BESS facility in our area. This would be by neighborhoods, schools, and major highways. These experiments should never be allowed to be built. Ever! Governor Whitmer of Michigan took away the local authority of planning commissions to regulate or say no to renewable energy facilities. We have no voice.
Moss Landing in CA has had multiple fires (6, I believe) and there was another huge one near San Diego. There was a big one in Scotland and three ships have sunk because of EV battery fires. They are a real problem.
These fires are especially difficult for rural volunteer fire companies to handle; BESS fires in particular can require days of 24-hr monitoring and hosing down to cool the containers. Volunteers are balancing firefighting, jobs, and family obligations; they can’t be expected to be on-site for days at a time. This means mutual-aid companies will have to be called in. Water can be a major problem for many rural locations; you can’t use water directly on a li-ion battery fire, but you need it to keep everything around it from igniting. Usually it has to be brought in by tanker, and not every fire company can spare a tanker for several days. These fire companies have to provide coverage for other fires and emergencies at the same time they’re fighting BESS fires—how are they supposed to do that? What about evacuations in rural areas? Communications are often quite limited, and populations may be widely scattered.
It's incredible that the radiation boogieman is more frightening than fire.
We have a developer attempting to put a BESS facility in our area. This would be by neighborhoods, schools, and major highways. These experiments should never be allowed to be built. Ever! Governor Whitmer of Michigan took away the local authority of planning commissions to regulate or say no to renewable energy facilities. We have no voice.
Moss Landing in CA has had multiple fires (6, I believe) and there was another huge one near San Diego. There was a big one in Scotland and three ships have sunk because of EV battery fires. They are a real problem.