Battery inside children's book sparks car fire: North Carolina officials

HILDEBRAN, N.C. -- A child's car spot caught occurrence wrong a minivan successful North Carolina connected Sunday.

A children's publication was down the Burke County blaze.

Investigators said the publication was placed betwixt the kid information spot and the van seat. They judge the tiny lithium artillery wrong the publication overheated and started the fire.

No 1 was successful the car astatine the time; so, nary 1 was injured.

According to ABC affiliate WSOC-TV, the household had returned location from religion and were wrong their home. A neighbour noticed fume coming from the minivan.

A household subordinate grabbed the plot hose, WSOC reported, and enactment the occurrence out.

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"The satellite itself is moving to lithium batteries, which suggest immoderate of these troubles to the occurrence service," Chief Bobby Craig astatine the George Hildebran Fire and Rescue told WSOC. "I don't cognize if determination is - different than trying to support them chill - that determination is immoderate precautions."

The occurrence section is keeping the information spot for grooming purposes, WSOC reported.