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COALINGA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Coalinga Fire Department is informing radical to store and dispose of lithium-ion batteries decently aft responding to an flat occurrence caused by batteries connected Tuesday.
Crews accidental they responded to a study of an flat occurrence with fume showing. When they arrived determination was airy fume coming retired of a second-story window.
According to firefighters, upon entering the flat they were met with a airy haze and a burning electrical smell. As they made their mode to the bedrooms the fume became much intense.
Crews accidental they discovered a heap of electronics with covering and different combustible materials smoldering wrong a closet. In that pile, crews discovered aggregate lithium-ion artillery packs.
The batteries, firefighters accidental were highly blistery to the interaction and had ignited the materials astir them.
Firefighters accidental that the homeowner was location and discovered the fume and contacted 911 immediately.
According to the Coalinga Fire Department, lithium-ion artillery fires are becoming much communal arsenic the mean is 1 a week nationwide.
Firefighters accidental to halt utilizing lithium-ion batteries if there's an antithetic odor, alteration successful color, excessive heat, alteration is shape, leaking and unusual noises similar popping oregon hissing.
