NYC journalist's death is city's latest
lithium-ion battery fire fatality, officials say
Posted By: NorthernDog, 2/26/2024 12:55:53 PM
Friends and colleagues are mourning the death of a New York journalist who died in what authorities say is the city's latest deadly fire sparked by a micromobility device's lithium-ion battery. Fazil Khan, an Indian national and data journalist, was the lone fatality in a Friday apartment fire that injured 17 others. He was 27 years old. "We are devastated by the loss of such a great colleague and wonderful person," The Hechinger Report, an education news outlet where Khan worked, said on X, formerly Twitter. Khan was also a contributor at The City, another New York-based news outlet, which
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soldiers. But expanding the draft is controversial 9 replies
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It seems like just earlier this morning I was writing about the idiot who set himself on fire and died to stop a genocide that isn't happening in support of a group of actual genocidal killers, [Steve, it was just earlier this morning —editor] but I've already come across someone even stupider.
And this one graduated from Harvard.
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It's not clear if an e-bike caused the blaze or some other device.