LUDLOW — An electric scooter battery explosion caused a house fire in Ludlow on Tuesday, the State Fire Marshal’s Office determined. Firefighters were called around 4 p.m. Tuesday to the fire, the ...

Just after 5 p.m., the map showed nearly 30,000 without power across the county, including 1,957 households in Sonora and 27,773 households in unincorporated areas.

The rapid adoption of electric vehicles and renewable energy storage has placed battery safety under a microscope. A single ...

COLUMBIA — The Columbia Fire Department is warning about how to properly take care of and dispose of lithium-ion batteries after a lithium-ion battery exploded in a Columbia home on Friday night.

A reported lithium-ion battery explosion in Tuolumne County is under investigation as thousands in the area are without power, according to officials. The Tuolumne County Fire Department said it's at ...

We've become increasingly reliant on lithium-ion batteries. In their various shapes and sizes, they can power everything from smartphones to EVs and have proven invaluable for their capacity to charge ...

The cost of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries is running at nearly three times those of normal house fires, a top insurer has revealed. Insurance Australia Group, operator of some of the country’s ...

Firefighters and safety managers now face fires that may not respond to traditional suppression. This lack of clarity has fueled misconceptions about how these fires should be handled.

Solvent-free transfer printing enables uniform alumina–gold dual-layer coatings on lithium metal, overcoming interfacial and process limitations of conventional methods. A research team in South Korea ...

The weekend kicked off in an eventful way for the Columbia Fire Department, which responded to two house fires, including one that involved an exploding lithium-ion battery. The department responded ...