< img src = "/uploads/blogs/df/e2/ib-freejurcv_f4a4999EA.jpg" Alt = "Electronic cigarettes are increasingly causing fires: lithium-ion batteries"/> ~ 62 < P > in 2024 Fire Rover, specializing in automated and semi -automatic fire extinguishing systems, registered 2910 fires at waste processing enterprises in the US and Canada. Their causes were often the fire of batteries & nbsp; e -cigarettes or wipes.
< p > more about this threat & nbsp; wrote & nbsp; edition Arstechnica.
< P > Fire Rover has published fire reports on waste and waste recycling facilities since 2016. Compared to 2023, their number increased by 60% and almost twice as compared to 2022, when 1409 were recorded. And the most likely culprits to increase the number are electronic cigarettes, wipes and other nicotine devices working from batteries.
< p >According to Fire Rover Director Ryan Fhelman, fireworks, chemicals, briquettes for fires have previously caused fires, but now the lithium-ion batteries are a growing problem as the number of mobile devices is increasing and the possibilities of disposal remain limited. From his experience, the expert assumes that about half of the recorded fires arise precisely through batteries.
< p > approximately $ 2.5 billion losses for facilities and fire infrastructure were brought last year for one reason or another. People do not know where to take them, and when sorting the garbage, the batteries are very easy to miss. If everyone knew how to properly dispose of Veipes, on objects that could safely handle them, the risk could be reduced.< p >“Not only do their batteries are incorrectly thrown into garbage tanks and processing containers, so the WIP industry has made a minimum for investment in technology needed to solve the problem of 1.2 billion of waps that get to our waste and processing flows every year,” & Reported in Fire Rover report.
< p >< iframe width = "560" Height = "314" SRC = "//www.youtube.com/embed/dhzq6yms7cy" Alowfullscreen = "ALLOWFULLSCREN" >0 ~/IFrame >0 ~/P > WIP caused a fire in Maine (USA) < P > All ejecting batteries are potentially dangerous, as they can explode for various reasons: puncture, vibration, overheating, short circuit, crushing, internal refusal, recharge or production defects, etc. The Fire Rover report states that the media often describe situations as if the batteries are “spontaneously”. In fact, the waste processing process does not make it possible to guarantee that no battery will be damaged.
< p > The probable fire of the lithium-ion battery occurred in December 2024 in the garbageway in the suburbs of Chicago. The fire spread to cylinders with compressed natural gas (LNG) of the truck, causing the explosion, which caused the firefighters and the surrounding houses were damaged. Fire Rover also cited as an example of a fire in February 2025 at a dump in Kamden, New Jersey caused by a battery, “mistakenly delivered in EMR and unnoticed by scrap” houses.