Re: Batteries and Fire

["Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It wasn't my fault. I was just getting ready to throw those things out.
"Nick Lawrence" <nlaw@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.