US EditionChilliwack Business Sends Safety Message After Fire Ignites From Lithium Batteries
CHILLIWACK, BRITISH COLUMBIA, AUG 6 – The second lithium-ion battery fire in less than two months at Valley Waste and Recycling highlights the ongoing risk of improper disposal, officials said.
- A fire broke out on August 5 around 1:20 p.m. at Valley Waste and Recycling Inc.'s transfer facility on Aitken Road in Chilliwack.
- This blaze occurred in a garbage pile due to crushed lithium-ion batteries igniting, which follows a similar fire at the same facility two months earlier.
- Around 20 firefighters from fire stations 1 and 4 arrived with ladder trucks and excavators to control the blaze, limiting it to the waste and safeguarding adjacent structures.
- Assistant Fire Chief Chris Wilson explained that lithium-ion batteries pose serious fire risks due to thermal runaway, stating these batteries can "ignite or explode when crushed."
- No injuries were reported, the incident is under investigation, and Valley Waste urged the public to dispose of batteries only at proper recycling drop-offs to prevent future fires.
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