After recent fires, BHDPS reminding residents not to charge large batteries overnight

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After recent fires, BHDPS reminding residents not to charge large batteries overnight

BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. -- The Benton Harbor Department of Public Safety is warning members of the public of the dangers of leaving large Lithium-ion batteries to charge unattended after they have caused multiple fires in Berrien County recently.

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Batteries in the trash cause fires at the waste facility. “We have fires almost every day,” says Dagfinn Nilsen.

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The best time to stop a battery fire? Before it starts.

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Flames erupted last Tuesday amid the burned wreckage of the battery storage facility at Moss Landing Power Plant. It happened after a major fire there burned for days and then went quiet for weeks. The reignition is yet another reminder of how difficult fires in lithium-ion batteries can be to deal with. T…