Bloomberg reports only a quarter of US fire departments have dedicated training to fight electric vehicle fires and half of the departments have no protocols in place at all, according to a NTSB survey released Wednesday. The survey was conducted by the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the National Volunteer Fire Council for the NTSB following a series of crashes in which the batteries of electric vehicles caught fire. The “most aggressive” electric vehicle fires have involved lithium-based batteries, “which can self-ignite and are difficult to extinguish.”
From the news release of the American Association for Justice.
