How To Put Out Lithium Battery Fires. With all battery fires allow ample ventilation while the battery burns. Lithium-ion batteries have a potentially high risk of causing fire accidents.
As a consulation to early adopters the chance of a new LEAF blowing up its battery is probably an order of magnitude less than gasoline burning cars blowing up their source of power over 200000 vehicle fires per. Any fire can run out of control. Immediately upon contact with water lithium produces hydrogen gas and lithium-hydroxide.
Therefore a Class D fire extinguisher is not to be used to fight a lithium-ion battery fire.
Foreknowledge is therefore essential. Extinguishing In-Flight Laptop Computer Fires. Read along to find out what you could do to put out lithium-ion battery fire. Class D fire extinguishers which contain dry powder are intended for combustible metal fires only.
