Gas prices have dropped to a four year low. The single-vehicle fire happened on the morning of March 16. While we don’t know ...

More than 80,000 electric vehicles are registered in North Carolina. They are great for a lot of things, but a big concern is how hard it can be to put out an EV that's on fire. The Southern Pines ...

M ILTON, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Milton passed an ordinance that will require businesses that have public electric vehicle (EV) chargers to keep car fire blankets ready for fire department use.

Electric vehicles are constructed differently than traditional cars, ... The Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue deployed a fire blanket during the EV fire earlier this week.

On Sunday morning, crews from Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue answered a call of an electric vehicle (EV) fire on State Route 92 in Granite Falls. When crews arrived, they immediately put an EV ...

Local fire department explains why electric vehicle fires are more dangerous than other car fires ... they use a big car fire blanket. “It’s like any fire blanket,” Amen said.

The electric vehicle fire blankets are huge tarps that smother an electric car that's on fire–Steinbeck says they're pretty heavy and can take four or five firefighters to deploy.

More than 30 firefighters put out an electric vehicle fire at an Edmonds car dealership on July 12, 2024. The fire was reported around 10 a.m. in an unoccupied EV at the dealership at State Route ...

The fire was reported around 10 a.m. in an unoccupied electric car at the dealership located at State Route 104 and Highway 99. The car, which was parked about 50 feet away from any buildings, was ...

However, putting out electric car fires would require 20,000 to 30,000 gallons of water. “The battery packs in EVs are made up of thousands of individual cells, making it challenging to get ...