See a garbage truck’s CNG cylinders explode after lithium-ion battery fire
- It happened recently in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Nate Anderson – Feb 20, 2025 5:21 PM |
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Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, the fire department responded within five minutes. Firefighters saw flames shooting five feet into the air out the back of the truck, and they prepared to put the fire out using hoses and water. Four minutes after their arrival on scene, however, the garbage truck exploded in rather spectacular fashion, injuring several firefighters and police officers, damaging several homes in the vicinity, and scattering debris through the neighborhood.
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What is an infrequent event — a garbage truck fire — turned into a war zone!
Do you think all the warnings are just to give someone a job?
In this case, no one was hurt. But that was just luck.
Remember this when you’re flying or just doodling around town on your e-scooter with your laptop.
Not everything has to be sabotage by a waring country; sometimes it’s just ordinary human stupidity.
Argh!
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