Semi carrying 31K pounds of lithium batteries catches fire outside Las Vegas closing U.S. Highway 95

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Semi carrying 31K pounds of lithium batteries catches fire outside Las Vegas

Caitlin Lilly, Mick Akers and Noble Brigham | Las Vegas Review-Journal | September 17, 2024

A fiery crash involving a lithium battery truck and its aftermath shut down part of U.S. Highway 95 on Tuesday morning, the latest in a series of crashes in which trucks with lithium batteries have crashed and caught fire, causing chaos for drivers...

Scott Lewis, the Pahrump fire chief and Nye County director of emergency management, said the crash occurred just after midnight and the fire started almost immediately.

The truck carrying wood was headed south towards Las Vegas and the second truck with lithium batteries was heading north, likely to the Tesla plant in Sparks, Lewis said.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

Emerging issue

The crash and subsequent fire leading to the shutdown of U.S. 95 is the third such incident in recent months involving lithium batteries that has impacted travel within or into Nevada...more
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/semi-carrying-31k-pounds-of-lithium-batteries-catches-fire-outside-las-vegas-3171230/

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Lithium-ion fire causes emergency power shutdown at Digital Realty data center in Singapore



Lithium-ion fire causes emergency power shutdown at Digital Realty data center in Singapore

Alibaba continues to see issues

DataCenterDynamics.com | September 11, 2024 | Dan Swinhoe

A fire at a Digital Realty data center in Singapore has continued into its second day.

Digital Realty yesterday confirmed to DCD that a fire alarm was triggered at its SIN11 data center at 7.45am local time yesterday, September 10. By 8.04pm local time, Alibaba, which runs some of its cloud service from the data center, said that, though "under control," the issue had not been completely eliminated.

However, a further update suggests the situation has gotten worse.

"As of 1:46am, in response to local fire department's request, due to ongoing water spraying for fire fighting, the server room has started to experience water accumulation and leaks, posing a risk of electrical short circuits," Alibaba said in a further update on its status page. "An emergency power shutdown has been implemented for one of the server building[s] in Singapore Availability Zone C, while network services for other buildings in Availability Zone C have been gradually restored."

While Digital and Alibaba didn't disclose the cause of the fire, the local fire service suggested a lithium-ion UPS system was the culprit...more
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/lithium-ion-fire-causes-emergency-power-shutdown-at-digital-realty-data-center-in-singapore/

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A year later, cleanup begins at solar farm battery fire site

nny360.com | JONATHON WHEELER | Sep 10, 2024

CHAUMONT — Officials are happy to see some movement at the solar farm where a fire broke out last year.
It was over a year ago that crews spent nearly a week battling a fire inside a battery storage container at the solar facility off Route 179 in the village of Chaumont.

Chaumont Fire Chief Will Lipczynski said on Tuesday that it took so long to start the cleanup because of insurance and getting permits to do the work.

The hope is that the containers will be out of the area Saturday.

Lipczynski said Convergent, the owner of the solar farm, is removing any charge that is left in the batteries on site. The batteries will then be placed into a special container to ship it out of the area. The container will loaded onto a tractor-trailer for removal...more
https://www.nny360.com/communitynews/communitynotes/a-year-later-cleanup-begins-at-solar-farm-battery-fire-site/article_349e4c47-2522-56ef-8037-9ee8f7bbe8a5.html
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1. That's scary as hell.