Dealer's park their cars close together because space is an issue. Fire damages 14 electric vehicles at Broken Arrow dealership | Harringtonsdiesel
As Pat in the embedded video below mentions, parking new cars close together should not be a big deal; they are new cars. When a fire does break out (problems or arson) that fire can spread quickly, especially if an EV battery goes into thermal runaway.
A Saturday evening fire at a local dealership near North Elm Place and Highway 51 spread to 14 electric vehicles, according to the Broken Arrow Fire Department.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is a suburb of Tulsa, being about 10 or 15 miles southeast of downtown Tulsa.
This is the StacheD Training video 14 Electric Vehicles Burn at Oklahoma Dealership
Pat in the video takes the time to emphasize how toxic the smoke from an EV fire is. People have serious, permanent lung damage from breathing that smoke, and it can kill. Stay out of the smoke.
People don't realize how critical this really is. I did a story on the Sacramento firefighters who have permanent injuries because of being exposed to this smoke. It's a whitish gray vapor cloud. It contains fine metal particulate, aluminum, cobalt, manganese, copper. It's acidic, high levels of carbon monoxide. It's just a lot of stuff that you don't want to be breathing in.
The video is about four and a half minutes.
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