Two Firefighters Dead in Spain - Is EV to Blame?

The investigation is ongoing, but it seems likely to me, and apparently that is the working hypothesis. Two firefighters dead and more than a dozen others affected by fumes during huge blaze at community garage in Spain

Investigators are probing whether the fire was sparked by an electric vehicle in a car park for residents in Alcorcón

So there was a fire in the parking garage of building in Madrid. Two firefighters died, 14 were injured. One of those injuries is serious.

Initial hypotheses suggest that the first of the deceased firefighters was caught in a blast that affected several parked cars. This large-scale explosion was allegedly caused by a fire in an electric car which had crashed when its owner was driving it into the garage. The second firefighter died from the inhalation of fumes while he was being transferred to the University Hospital of Getafe. All the injured and deceased were members of the Alcorcón fire brigade.

So... if an EV catches fire, either through its own devices or because it is just in the vicinity of a fire, is it still a zero-emissions vehicle?

This story was mentioned in passing at the beginning of the video in yesterday's post about EV recalls.

3D Printed Guns in Spain

The original article is in Spanish. This like will take you to the Google Translate version, so the language isn't perfect. This is how a 3D printing weapons manufacturing workshop worked

Agents of the National Police have arrested, in the province of A Coruña, a person for his alleged participation in the crimes of manufacturing and illicit possession of weapons. In the two searches carried out, an AR9 submachine gun assembled with 3D printed parts has been intervened , practically finished, along with other parts of short arms also printed, prohibited weapons and a total of three printers. At the moment in Ceuta nothing similar has ever been detected.

Though the technology works better if you open the original link (below) in Chrome and have the browser do the translation. The language isn't better; your ability to do things like select and copy text works, and is not blocked.

The hat tip goes to Impro Guns: 3D printed gun bust in Spain who has all the photos. The guns are looking pretty good these days. Steel tubes for barrels. 3-D printed parts including what looks like a Glock style magazine for a 9mm firearm.

Here is that link to the original article.