Editor’s Note: The key takeaways from this article are:
- The fire department needed more assistance from two other fire departments and an additional tanker truck, plus the Madison County Hazmat Team and this was just for ONE car battery fire. Now imagine what Christian County would need should a fire break out at the proposed BESS facility they want to build in Ozark.
- EV batteries can reignite up to a week after the initial fire is extinguished.
- Toxic chemicals and fumes are leaked by water run off and smoke from the fire.