Hacker News with Generative AI: Fire Safety

Fire at Moss Landing battery plant spurs evacuations, road closures (mercurynews.com)
Flames continued to spew early Friday morning in the community of Moss Landing and the Elkhorn Slough area in northern Monterey County after a major fire at a battery storage plant that brought evacuations.
Fire Safety, Evacuations, Battery Storage, California, Environment
9 points by Animats 22 hours ago | 1 comments
Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019) (getty.edu)
Art, Fire Safety, Museums
105 points by wallflower 5 days ago | 43 comments
Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts (latimes.com)
For decades, Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have studied the history and behavior of wildfires. The magnitude of destruction this week in Los Angeles and Altadena, they argue, could have been mitigated. Society’s understanding and relationship to fire has to change if the conflagrations like these are to be prevented.
Wildfires, Climate Change, Los Angeles, Environmentalism, Fire Safety
34 points by andsoitis 6 days ago | 63 comments
Social Media and Fire Exits (pluralistic.net)
Of course you should do everything you can to prevent fires – and also, you should build fire exits, because no matter how hard to you try, stuff burns. That includes social media sites.
Social Media, Safety, Fire Safety
5 points by worik 34 days ago | 0 comments
Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires (ssrn.com)
Battery storage systems are becoming an integral part of the energy transition, as they offer the possibility of bridging time windows in which self-generated renewable energy is not available and they are able to deliver manifold system services to the grid.
Energy, Fire Safety, Battery Technology, Renewable Energy
185 points by gnabgib 39 days ago | 205 comments
Fireball.xyz – the best place to learn about smoke detectors (fireball.xyz)
Fire Safety, Home Improvement, Technology, Safety
7 points by kirillzubovsky 91 days ago | 0 comments
It took 50k gallons of water to put out Tesla Semi fire (apnews.com)
California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons (190,000 liters) of water to extinguish flames after a crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Fire Safety, Accidents
7 points by mizzao 125 days ago | 1 comments
It took 50K gallons of water to put out Tesla Semi fire in California (apnews.com)
California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons (190,000 liters) of water to extinguish flames after a crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
Electric Vehicles, Fire Safety, Tesla, California
8 points by pseudolus 127 days ago | 0 comments
It took 50k gallons of water to put out Tesla Semi fire in CA, US agency says (apnews.com)
California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons (190,000 liters) of water to extinguish flames after a crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
Electric Vehicles, California, Fire Safety, Transportation Safety
8 points by c420 127 days ago | 1 comments
Residential Firetraps: Buildings wrapped in solid gasoline (reuters.com)
Fire Safety, Residential Buildings, News, Journalism
33 points by anjel 136 days ago | 0 comments
Fire at South Korea lithium battery plant kills at least 16 people (nbcnews.com)
Fire Safety, Lithium Batteries, South Korea, Accidents, Industrial Accidents
98 points by rntn 208 days ago | 39 comments
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (publicdomainreview.org)
History, Maps, Architecture, Fire Safety
54 points by prismatic 216 days ago | 6 comments
African Americans Have the Highest Rate of Fire Deaths and Injuries (2021) (cpsc.gov)
Fire Safety, Public Health, Statistics, United States
26 points by frasermarlow 239 days ago | 23 comments
Boeing locks out private firefighters after contract talks break down (wsws.org)
Boeing, Labor Disputes, Fire Safety
13 points by PaulHoule 250 days ago | 5 comments