A truck stuffed with lithium-ion batteries was knocked over close to the Port of Los Angeles on September twenty sixth, exploded, and was left to burn for days — interrupting site visitors on highways, and a bridge and shutting down port terminals. An area towing firm, Pepe’s Towing Service, caught the explosion on digicam and vlogged the incident for days till it was time for them to haul the remnants away.
Pepe’s Tow Service proprietor Josh Acosta uploaded a prolonged video immediately chronicling the purpose of explosion, the lengthy wait because the Fireplace Division let the batteries burn, and the method of lifting the container stuffed with burnt batteries to move. Within the video, we see what appears to be like like stacks of batteries with liquid cooling pipes between every layer.
Picture: Pepe’s Towing Service
Picture: Pepe’s Towing Service
Picture: Pepe’s Towing Service
In a telephone name with The Verge, Acosta says the battery is one “large container-sized battery” that “doesn’t come aside.” He believes it might be utilized in buildings for backup energy. Based on Acosta, the battery weighed 60,000 kilos.
Acosta says he doesn’t keep in mind which firm owns the container that transported the battery — however his video blurs out textual content on the facet of the container anyhow.
The video reveals the painstaking logistics for firefighters coping with burning lithium-ion cells — they typically want to make use of 1000’s of gallons of water to place these out, together with on electrical automobile fires. And on this case, the Los Angeles Fireplace Division advised The Verge that the fireplace stored occurring and off.
Acosta advised us he was known as to the job by the shopper who owns the overturned truck, and that’s why he caught the second on digicam. Now, Pepe’s Towing is hauling the remnants of the container for scrap recycling.
