Re: Batteries and Fire

[Nick Lawrence <nlaw@xxxxxxx>]

The graveyard shift operator looked up and saw flames flowing past the
c/s windows.
A few seconds later the operations room went dark, and the phones went dead.
A fire, caused by and fueled by the hundreds of "dead" gell-cell
batteries carelessly tossed into the garbage area one floor below Motion
Detection Systems Inc UL-listed monitoring station (S-1546) at 1221
Madison, Oakland CA, had burned thru the AC power lines and the 200-pair
telco cable serving the station.
It took over 6 weeks, in 1985, to put the station back into service.
True facts.


Julian wrote:
> So it turns out I didn't need to experiment with batteries to see if
> they can start a fire.