Kevin Killough: Electric emergency vehicle fire burns down fire station, destroys millions of dollars in equipment DAVID BLACKMON
Kevin Killough: Electric emergency vehicle fire burns down fire station, destroys millions of dollars in equipment DAVID BLACKMON
The stations, which opened a year ago, didn’t have a fire alarm system, Euro News reported because “experts considered it not necessary.”
Kevin Killough: Electric emergency vehicle fire burns down fire station, destroys millions of dollars in equipment
OCT 25
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[Another gem from a great energy reporter, Kevin Killough at JustTheNews]
An electric emergency vehicle belonging to a fire department in Germany caught fire and burnt down the new fire station.
The fire, which occurred on Oct. 16, according to Euro News,started from a vehicle that "contained lithium-ion batteries and an external power connection." The blaze destroyed nearly a dozen emergency vehicles and caused between $21.5 million and $25.9 million in damage. No one was injured.
The stations, which opened a year ago, didn’t have a fire alarm system, Euro News reported because “experts considered it not necessary.”
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Excerpt from the linked story at Euro News:
A fire alarm system wasn't installed in the building because experts did not consider it necessary.
A new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire, causing millions of euros in damage, did not have a fire alarm system.
The fire broke out early Wednesday morning at the Stadtallendorf fire station in Hesse and destroyed the equipment hall and almost a dozen emergency vehicles, according to local media.
Initial estimates put the damage at between €20 million and €24 million. No one was injured.
Local officials told the German news agency dpa that no fire alarm system was installed in the building because experts had considered it not necessary — much to the astonishment of many observers now that the station has burned down.
The fire broke out on an emergency vehicle belonging to the fire department, which contained lithium-ion batteries and an external power connection.
The station opened less than a year ago, local media reported.
“I believe that what has happened will make many people think and act,” about improving fire protection requirements at fire stations, Norbert Fischer, the head of the State Fire Brigade Association of the state of Hesse, said.
Precisely because there is a lot of technology in fire stations and batteries are being charged, it would make sense to equip them with fire alarm systems, Fischer said, noting it was unclear whether such a system could have prevented the worst in Stadtallendorf.
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You just have to love that highlighted statement from Mr. Fischer, don’t you?
Why yes, it would make sense to equip any facility in which any EV battery is housed with fire alarm systems. But who could have possibly seen that one coming?
*sigh*
That is all.
“Experts considered it not necessarily” so much for “experts”
This is a summary of the last 4 years. Run by experts. Germany is imploding on woke experts.