E-bike battery fires this year have killed more in NYC than in 2022: FDNYBy Dean Balsamini
June 3, 2023
Lithium-ion batteries from e-bikes and similar devices have fueled 92 fires, injured 64 people, and caused nine deaths so far this year – almost as many as the 10 fatalities in 2022 and 2021 combined, FDNY data show.
Four people perished last month, when a May 7 blaze tore through an Upper Manhattan apartment building.
In April, a 7-year-old and a teenager died in a Queens house fire sparked by the battery on an e-bike, officials said.
In that instance, people were forced to leap out of their windows to escape the inferno, which broke out inside the vestibule of the two-story building at 25-71 46th St. in Astoria and quickly spread up the stairs, fire officials said.
On Jan. 20, Modesto Collado, 63, was killed and 10 others hurt after a charging e-bike battery fueled a fast-moving fire that tore through a home in East Elmhurst, Queens.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/06/03/e-bike-battery-fires-this-year-have-killed-more-in-nyc-than-in-2022-fdny/
