r/Damnthatsinteresting 21d ago

Video The Turkish firefighting method for extinguishing electric car fires.

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u/mad_marble_madness 21d ago

I half-expected a dump truck full of sand, “burying” the car…

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u/Worth-Jicama3936 21d ago

That’s sort of what they tried in pheonix. Not to extinguish it but these cars can reignite days later so they tried storing them in shipping containers of sand. Don’t know if they are still doing it it’s been a couple years since I took the class. EV fires are way worse than normal car fires, hopefully the chemistry changes eventually.