Alabama firefighters use 36,000 gallons
of water to put out an EV fire on Christmas

When I was a volunteer fireman, our rural fire department had one large truck, which held 5,000 gallons of water, and a smaller 4 wheel drive truck with, IIRC, a 500 gallon tank to use for woods fires. We also had backpack water units, useful to fight smaller woods fires in the brushy lands in rural central Florida. I remember going to one car fire, and the "fun" of getting to be the guy to open the hood......where the flames leaped out as the hood was cracked, and my backup sprayed water to keep it off of me. I can't help but wonder....are modern fire trucks much more capacious? They seem about the same size, and 5.000 gallons of water weighs about 40,000 lbs, so even 6,000 is getting to be a heck of a load for a single truck, at 48,000 lbs -- water weighs 8 lbs per gallon. I'm assuming that they must have had multiple trucks and/or one truck spraying and the other rushing to a hydrant to refill....which doesn't happen in 5 minutes, by the way. Takes quite a bit of time to refill a truck from a hydrant. It's been almost 50 years, but IIRC, about 20 or more minutes to refill the truck. This isn't a simple thing, trying to contain these EV battery fires. They cannot actually extinguish them, only cool them down until they burn themselves out, minimize damage to adjacent things. EVs are too dangerous at this point to be a reasonable thing to own.

We just need 40,000 gallon trucks! Greenies will have an answer! Lol

Re #2.....hmm. I suspect you are kidding, but let's do a 'by the numbers' look at that. 40,000 gallons times 8 lbs per gallon, gets you a 320,000 lb LOAD on the truck, plus the truck. I believe the max allowable total weight for a semi-truck is about 80,000 lbs...so a truck 4-5 times that heavy....probably not going to happen.

In the future they should make fire trucks that carry baking soda for Electric vehicles. weighs less and less used. Or better yet, don't buy EV's

You'd need 3 of those 10000 gal tankers that they use to fill swimming pools. But. .all those trucks themselves will need to be EVS.

I won't even park in proximity to an EV. I'll walk a little farther.

Although fire trucks undoubtedly come in various sizes, a local firefighter told me that 800 gallons--which is more than three tons of water--is normal in the trucks we see locally. 300 gallons is usually enough to put out any conceivable fire in an ICE vehicle. A few weeks ago I saw an e-car fire after some genius used his Tesla to drive his boat down a boat ramp. Something strange happened, and the car lost power, locked its doors, slid backward into the seawater, and burst into flames. The driver fortunately knew how to unlock the doors, and made it to land safely. What amazed me was seeing the pretty orange flames burning underneath the water while the car was entirely submerged. And yet they kept burning, paying no attention to the water, not giving a damn, like a honeybadger. Underwater: that was surely the safest place to let the car burn. The car was totaled, a complete loss. Seawater is very, very dangerous around e-anything.

Discussing this story with my wife, whose father was the volunteer fire department fire chief in that small town, and she said that her father told her that the truck held 1,500 gallons. I bow to her superior memory, and a father who actually "owned" the truck that I only rode on to a few fires. I was probably told wrong by some other volunteer who didn't know, either. I did spend time polishing it and making it look good. So, if that was a 1,500 gallon fire truck, then they needed 24 truckloads of water for that EV. Worse than I thought.

No need to squirt water on an electrical fire, just use it to keep other stuff around it from burning up. Electricity doesnt do well with water. It will just keep on burning.