On the news they were talking about Tesla battery fires being really hard to put out. I thought, why couldn’t you just slide a fireproof fabric of some kind under the burning Tesla. Pull that sucker up, and vacuum seal it.
Basically, why aren’t fires put out more often by cutting off oxygen? It seems like the most effective way as opposed to dousing it with water or sand.
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The problem is getting anything under the fire is extremely dangerous. But a variant of this is very much the approach that Fire Departments are now training and equipping for – get a specialized blanket over the fire, smoother it, and secure the vehicle until it fully self-extinguishes.
The above is video from a Denver, CO area Fire Department, and shows how they handled an Electric Vehicle Fire.
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