A fire in Aurora on Thursday was yet another in less than a week that had firefighters working to try to extinguish lithium battery fires. A townhome on Aurora’s South Ensenada Street had heavy damage from a fire that had firefighters removing and packaging batteries from model RC cars.
It followed an incident on Tuesday at an apartment at 8250 East Harvard Ave. that had South Metro Firefighters hustling to pull an electric scooter outside, where they immersed it in a bucket that contained a mineral-glass mixture.
Over the weekend, a car fire at a charging station on West Littleton Boulevard in Littleton meant the evacuation of people from the area around it due to hazardous smoke.
Putting water on the fires is ineffective and even causes problems of its own…