Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of lithium-ion batteries "exploding" and catching fire on the fourth floor of the engineering building at Portland State University. Crews arrived on the ...

Multiple lithium-ion batteries exploded in Portland State University’s Engineering Building Tuesday morning, forcing more than 100 students and staff to evacuate the building for about two hours. The ...

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KGO) -- For months 7 on Your Side has been reporting on the dangers of lithium batteries. They've exploded without warning in some hoverboards, smartphones, laptops and ...

Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of ...

Experts are warning of a growing fire risk linked to untested lithium-ion battery products, with the number of devices found ...

Lithium ion batteries are everywhere these days but they're a major fire risk. That has insurers warning premiums will need .

NEW YORK — The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly ...

Chicago and New York are different worlds, from hot dog condiments to hot dog excrement on the sidewalks. New York uses the wrong kind on the former and has too much of the latter. But the laws of ...

That seems bound to fail, unless thermally coupled to the entire (non-thermally-conductive) tank and insulated from the outside. Seems like you would at least need a pressure release valve, if not ...