Laptop with lithium battery explodes at D.C. school

A laptop containing a lithium-ion battery ignited at a school in the 500 block of 19th Street NE on Wednesday, the D.C. Fire and EMS Department said.

Fire officials didn’t name the school, but Monument Academy is at that address.

The laptop exploded just before 11 a.m. While the battery inside the computer caught fire, the blaze didn’t spread inside the school, the officials said on social media…

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