Electric Vehicle Firefighting: Essential Insights from Recent Experiments
With electric vehicles (EVs) becoming more prevalent, fire departments are keen to understand effective firefighting techniques for these incidents. A recent series of comprehensive fire experiments offers valuable insights to address these operational challenges.
On November 10, a 75-minute webinar will be held, featuring Adam Barowy, a principal research engineer at the UL Research Institutes’ Fire Safety Research Institute. This session will present new evidence to help fire departments refine their strategies for handling electric vehicle fires.
Key Topics of the Webinar
The Fire Safety of Batteries and Electric Vehicles research program has conducted extensive full-scale fire experiments. These experiments focus on crucial questions for today’s fire services, including:
- Effectiveness of traditional fire suppression methods when EV batteries are involved.
- The significance and limitations of using water from a standard handline.
- Understanding fire behavior and thermal runaway during EV incidents.
- Firefighter exposure to combustion products, impacting PPE, SCBA, and decontamination.
- Insights on under-vehicle nozzles, fire blankets, and other EV fire-control strategies.
- Challenges of reignition and determining the end of an EV incident.
- Post-fire actions, including towing, vehicle isolation, and ongoing monitoring.
- The implications of this research for fire prevention and protection professionals.
About the Panelist
Adam Barowy, the principal research engineer at the Fire Safety Research Institute, specializes in full-scale fire research, emerging fire hazards, and energy-storage technologies. Before joining FSRI, Barowy contributed to commercial fire research and the development of UL standards and test methods, advancing large-scale energy-storage system testing. Previously, he conducted full-scale fire research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
To participate in this informative webinar, please register by completing the form on this page.
Additional Resources
Original Story at www.firerescue1.com