October is Fire Prevention Month, and this year local fire departments want you to “charge into fire safety” by keeping an ...

You can find them in your mobile phone and laptop, and perhaps even your watch and your car. Lithium batteries have become ...

NEW YORK — An exploding lithium-ion battery in an illegal e-bike repair shop in the basement of a residential home in Queens sparked a huge fire that tore through the single-family house, FDNY ...

A lithium-ion battery from an electric scooter exploded in a Ludlow home, causing significant property damage.

Cesium-137 is a man-made radioisotope of cesium. Traces of it are widespread and can be present in the environment at background levels, and at higher levels in water or foods grown, raised, or ...

Some local firefighters now have new equipment to fight those difficult electric vehicle battery fires. 2 On Your Side ...

A 76-year-old grandmother was killed when an e-bike battery exploded like a “blowtorch” inside a Queens pizzeria on the Fourth of July – trapping her as she tried to leave the bathroom, the FDNY said.

Local firefighters are receiving new equipment to handle exploding lithium on battery packs in EVs as part of new grant.

Over the last two weeks, exploding vapes and lithium batteries caused three fires in new bin lorries across Glasgow, with one ...