After a home caught fire after a battery burst while charging electric bikes and scooters, owners are reminded to exercise caution.
Around 10.30 am on Monday, an e-bike battery caught fire and blasted through the front windows of a house on Anzac Highway in Camden Park, Adelaide.
Residents of the house, a woman and her daughter, barely survived the subsequent fire.
When I turned back, there was a lot of smoke pouring out of the home, a witness told 9News.
According to Craig Attard of South Australia’s Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS), the mother and daughter attempted to take the bike out of the home but were unable to do so because of the advancing flames.
Fortunately, the couple was able to get out of the house before it detonated.
Even though the home’s inside had already suffered severe damage by the time the MFS was able to put out the fire, no nearby houses were damaged.
It said that an increasing number of e-batteries had been bursting and starting fires.
They were really fortunate, according to Mr. Attard, since an explosion like that with batteries bursting on the face with flesh may be horrifying.
Be cautious since safety protocols have not kept up with this new technology.
The battery explosion comes after a similar occurrence in Sydney that happened in late June and included an e-bike battery that caught fire and luckily pulled three youngsters out of a burning flat.
Firefighters said that the three girls’ cunning attempt to barricade themselves inside a bedroom with the door closed saved their lives.
Just after one in the morning on Sunday, June 26, fire personnel were sent to a Lidcombe apartment after seeing smoke coming from a structure on John Street.
Dramatic video from the rescue effort showed firemen searching the smoke-filled flat while shouting out to check if anybody was still inside before stumbling onto three girls in a bedroom flashing their phone flashlights.
The choice to shut the door and shelter inside, according to Incident Controller Tim Horder, “is considered to have saved their lives.”
Firefighter Cem Dincer can be seen in rescue video making his way into the apartment while calling out to anybody who may still be inside.
In the video, he tells his crew, “There’s a door here, I’m going to unlock it,” before entering another room and crying out to the women.
Before the females can respond with “I’m here” and begin flashing their phone flashlights, he asks, “Where are you?”
One of the youngsters rushes to Mr. Dincer, weary from taking in the fumes, and collapses into his arms.
The fireman orders the girls to follow him as he leads them out the window and onto the roof of the store below, where a crew is ready to assist them down the ladder.
When he discovered the girls, he told Nine News that he was “very delighted” and gave them credit for their survival.
They used their phone lights cleverly while they were terrified. I grabbed them immediately because I saw it right away,” Mr. Dincer added.
After extinguishing the flames, Mr. Dincer and his crew went back inside the apartment to make sure no one else was still there before identifying the source of the fire as an electric bike that was charging in the kitchen below.
The girls opted to close the door after learning about fire safety in class, according to incident controller Horder.
He remarked, “That did give them some time and halt the smoke from flooding the room.”
Before the fire spread out of control, a second guy, age 31, who was in the store below him, managed to escape.