<story><title>Container loaded with discarded lithium batteries catches fire enroute to port</title><url>https://gcaptain.com/container-lithium-battery-fire/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noodlesUK</author><text>The real crime here was lying on the bill of lading to get around shipping restrictions. Lithium batteries do sometimes cause fires, and sometimes big ones, but we have some safety mechanisms to help with that kind of thing. You can’t put any of them in place if you lie about what you’re shipping</text></comment>
<story><title>Container loaded with discarded lithium batteries catches fire enroute to port</title><url>https://gcaptain.com/container-lithium-battery-fire/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devwastaken</author><text>Lithiums are nothing to treat carelessly. Friend of mine had a good quality drone battery catch their room on fire. Could not put out the battery, had to scoop it and put it outside until it stopped. The only reason it didn&amp;#x27;t burn the house down was due to flame retardant materials things are made out of nowadays and they caught it fast enough.&lt;p&gt;Manufacturing by it&amp;#x27;s nature has defects, get metal containers for your lithium charging and don&amp;#x27;t cheap out on batteries. If you have old lithium batteries from laptops, drones, etc, dispose of them at a local transfer station properly. Or at a minimum locate them in something metal that has a lid in an area where open flame would not readily catch something on fire.</text></comment>