VW/Audi/ Porsche Cargo ship blaze, Crew has been rescued / Ship + cargo loss |
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VW/Audi/ Porsche Cargo ship blaze, Crew has been rescued / Ship + cargo loss |
Maltese Falcon |
Feb 17 2022, 03:59 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,727 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None |
Just checked this news out today...Cargo ship in the Atlantic looks like a huge loss of Porsche, Audi & VW's. Crew has been rescued...looks like a total loss and an Eco mess for now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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wonkipop |
Feb 18 2022, 04:49 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,439 Joined: 6-May 20 From: north antarctica Member No.: 24,231 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
slightly OT but related.
did some consultancy work on an apartment building here before covid hit. a car stacker in the basement was being proposed to compact parking efficiently. they are becoming more common in bigger buildings on tight sites. i brought up potential lithium battery fires. shoulders got shrugged. fire engineers said impossible to stop. just close the fire doors and turn the drenchers on. conventional fire suppressing does not work. when its out go in and clean up the aftermath. be a very expensive job going into a car stacker basement and cutting everything out and pulling it out in pieces. access not exactly easy for cranes etc. ship would be a nightmare. depending on how hot the fire had been. my advice to owners of even conventional homes would be think twice about a wall battery pack inside a building. never put one in your house. think carefully even about an outbuilding or shed if you keep anything else in there you value. seperate battery shelter is way to go if possible or in fire proof enclosure. the batteries burn hot though. and if i owned an EV and probably will have to one day, it parks in the driveway. EDIT not that i am jumping to conclusions on this ship fire........but its the second big one now. |
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