Highway Closed as 3-Alarm Blaze Erupts at Lithium Battery Plant – Fire Officials Can Only Watch it Burn – IOTW Report

Highway Closed as 3-Alarm Blaze Erupts at Lithium Battery Plant – Fire Officials Can Only Watch it Burn

WJ:

In the past year, lithium-ion battery fires in electric vehicles have led to blazing wrecks along highways that take firefighters hours to extinguish and buildings that go up like a torch from fires that cannot be swiftly brought under control.

And now, a plant that uses lithium to make components for batteries for electric vehicles has gone up in flames.

A plant belonging to the Livent Corp. was on fire early Monday in the North Carolina town of Bessemer City, according to WCNC-TV in Charlotte. more here

14 Comments on Highway Closed as 3-Alarm Blaze Erupts at Lithium Battery Plant – Fire Officials Can Only Watch it Burn

  1. Lithium reacts with water.

    https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/water/lithium/lithium-and-water.htm

    Lithium is self-ozydizing.

    https://thompson-safety.com/company/press/lithium-ion-battery-fire#:~:text=As%20fire%20fighters%20have%20discovered,out%22%20like%20a%20traditional%20fire.

    Lithium is very poisonous in both inhalation and ground water.

    https://www.flinnsci.com/sds_452-lithium/sds_452/

    Checkmate.

    The whole concept never wasn’t stupid.

    Except when it was deliberately evil.

    Pray for those firefighters, that community, and us all.

    Because they intend to poison us all before its over.

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  2. (the unmoderated version)

    Lithium reacts with water.

    ht tps://www.lenntech.com/periodic/water/lithium/lithium-and-water.htm

    Lithium is self-ozydizing.

    ht tps://thompson-safety.com/company/press/lithium-ion-battery-fire#:~:text=As%20fire%20fighters%20have%20discovered,out%22%20like%20a%20traditional%20fire.

    Lithium is very poisonous in both inhalation and ground water.

    ht tps://www.flinnsci.com/sds_452-lithium/sds_452/

    Checkmate.

    The whole concept never wasn’t stupid.

    Except when it was deliberately evil.

    Pray for those firefighters, that community, and us all.

    Because they intend to poison us all before its over.

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  3. …all you really CAN do is go into defensive mode. Life hazard protection, exposure protection, remove materials as can be safely done, firebreak where practical (most buildings it is not), and evacuation as needed while protecting groundwater to the greatest extent possible.

    Can’t even surround and drown it. Lithim reacts violenly with water and also produces hydrogen.

    Sometimes the building has built-in firebreaks but buildings have often been repurposed ten or a dozen times and never upgraded for their current hazard. Fire breaks are also often viewed as a nuisance so folks cut them, drill holes in them, pass conduit and pipe through them, and they get torn down by forklifts.

    Once upon a time an installation would have had a Halon system to at least exclude fresh oxygen, but bunny huggers effectively outlawed that as well.

    https://www.epa.gov/ozone-layer-protection/halons-program

    … .gov’s been setting this up for a long time.

    They will be rid of us.

    One way or another…

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  4. I remember when the Kalamazoo river in Michigan had an oil spill the same summer as the BP spill in the Gulf. The local news jumped with glee covering it for months. Never happen here.

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  5. We got 4 of these damned plants planned for MI.
    One being planned for the Big Rapids area.
    Two for the East side of the state and one for the lakeshore of west MI in Holland.
    Come for the Tulip Festival, stay for the bon fire.
    Have I ever mentioned how much I despise wHitler?

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  6. MissInMi
    AT 3:53 PM

    …I’ve been to Holland, ironically to buy electric vehicles for our plant automation from what at the time was Egemin, now is Dematic. We were there in winter so no tulips and most of the themed stuff was closed, but the Big Red lighthouse was pretty neat even with vicious lake winds.

    Lovely part of the world.

    Be a shame to poison it with lithium fires.

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  7. ^^^ …a nearby windmill fell onto the factory…”
    amazing
    it was all ‘green’ when they started this, and now it will all be charcoal grey. And it can’t be reversed.
    they are much better at breaking and dismantling than they are at building
    ‘build back better’ <- what a whopper that is

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  8. ^^^ All we’ve hoid from this administration is:
    Build Back Better
    Build Back Better
    Build Back Better

    Unity
    Unity
    Unity

    All we got has been:
    Divide
    Divide
    Divide
    AND
    Destroy
    Destroy
    Destroy

    Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnde they wonder why I call him Jackass Joe!

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