Trailer Fire
Call this an "FYI".........**See update at bottom! Some of you will remember "Professor95" from his many posts on the Tech Issues Forum - usually related to generators. (He's a PE & well qualified ...
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rjstractor wrote:hone eagle wrote:old guy wrote:
wow, what a picture of the fire. I was a firefighter for 30 years and when I saw that picture I could smell the fire smell. guess it's true about taking the fire out of the horse etc.
Just wondering is a lithium fire like a alinumin fire ?
scary?
Lithium batteries burn very intensely, like magnesium. A car fire in a Tesla or other EV can take 2000 gallons of water or more to extinguish. Nearly all of the car fires I have put out in my career are knocked down with 100 gallons or less.
Well said!
Some early VWs (beetles & vans) and Porsche 914s had magnesium trans-axle center sections.
They were real "eye openers" when a supposedly simple engine fire refused go out! Usually the fire was extinguished (only) after the fuel (the magnesium center section) was gone.
While you applied copious amounts of water, the original cause (like a fuel leak) would continually re-ignite adding to the problem.
:W
