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Posted By: Hazymac, 12/11/2025 8:14:54 AM

An electric school bus burst into flames in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive emergency response and shutting down a stretch of the 210 Freeway in Sylmar, authorities said. The fire was reported around 9:20 a.m. at 11460 W. Foothill Blvd., directly under the 210 Freeway overpass in the San Fernando Valley, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Sky5 was over the scene as heavy flames and thick black smoke poured from the fully involved bus. No children were on board at the time of the fire, officials said. The driver, whose age and gender have not been released, was transported to a local hospital for minor smoke inhalation.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Hazymac 12/11/2025 8:41:04 AM (No. 2039816)
What genius in LA decided to buy these electric schoolbuses with the deadly Li-ion batteries? I'm afraid there's no cure for stupidity. When these vehicles burn, they don't burn at 1,500 F like an ICE car with a gasoline fire--they burn at about 5,000 F, hot enough to melt reinforcing steel and concrete. Now there are modern structures ten floors high, built on top of four levels of parking. Some of these places won't even allow hybrid vehicles, let alone e-cars, in their parking lots. Too dangerous. The same is true for underground parking garages. The owners just don't want to have to deal with these uncontrollable fires. Finally, overseas shipping companies, having lost entire ships with thousands of new cars onboard, are shying away fromtransporting anything with Li-ion batteries. Too damned dangerous. E-everything has got to go, including "renewable" wind and solar electricity. Total waste. No more windmills, no more solar farms, no more electric transportation. It's all a racket. End it. (Elon Musk, this generation's Benjamin Franklin, can build ICE vehicles. If he does, his will probably be the best.)
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Reply 2 - Posted by: NorthernDog 12/11/2025 8:46:05 AM (No. 2039821)
One of Kamalala's little electric school buses she wanted to populate the land. In many districts the electric school buses were a disaster on cold snowy mornings.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Strike3 12/11/2025 8:51:38 AM (No. 2039822)
Did the firemen have any water? Not that it would have done any good.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Hazymac 12/11/2025 9:03:32 AM (No. 2039828)
#3 is correct. These vehicles will burn underwater, whether in fresh water or seawater! If these li-ion batteries even touch saltwater, they will burst into flames that can't be put out. Fire departments hate hate hate dealing with these things when they burn. In the video below, a car submerged in a tank of fresh water burns for hours and actually boils the water in the tank! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h_E-yi0hcg&t=3s (SUBMERGED ⚡️electric vehicle 🔥 BURNS in water-filled tank! | MGUY Australia)
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Reply 5 - Posted by: thefield 12/11/2025 9:08:05 AM (No. 2039830)
Death trap for children
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 12/11/2025 9:37:16 AM (No. 2039846)
I don't understand why insurance companies are not charging double for electric car insurance and home fire insurance. If my neighbor's electric car sets itself and his garage on fire, and that house fire affects my house, I will be suing his ars off!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: mc squared 12/11/2025 9:38:39 AM (No. 2039848)
I glad there were no kids on board and the driver is OK. I'd hate to ruin the schadenfreude.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 12/11/2025 9:42:17 AM (No. 2039849)
Side note - why would I care about the driver's age or gender? Are they contributing factors to the cause of the incident? As to the fire, all the environmental benefits alledgedly contributed by this electric vehicle just went up in smoke. Literally.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Hazymac 12/11/2025 9:42:47 AM (No. 2039850)
Addendum to #4: The car submerged in the tank of fresh water boiled for thirteen (13) hours! The fire department had to keep adding water so the car would be completely submerged. The water that was added quickly got to 212 F, creating steam and more water lossage. Another video shows some Tesla owner trying to launch a jet ski in Hollywood, Florida (near Ft. Lauderdale). For some unknown reason, the Tesla lost power while backing down the ramp, the car rolled into the (salt) water, burst into flames, and burned for hours. During Hurricane Helene coastal flooding, there is a video of an e-car in a garage catching fire when seawater reaches its battery. Even though the car was not charging, it burned the house down. Producing one 1,000 pound Li-ion battery that powers one e-car requires a half million pounds of earth to be moved. (The regular ICE Hummer weighs a hefty 6,000 pounds; the e-Hummer weighs 9,000 pounds, including its 3,000 pound Li-ion battery. My whole ICE car ('03 Honda S2000) with me sitting in it with a trunk full of drinking water weighs less than 3,000#.)
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 12/11/2025 10:02:02 AM (No. 2039864)
The school bus color will now be changed from Yellow to Burnt Siena.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bpl40 12/11/2025 10:14:16 AM (No. 2039869)
Parents all over the country must put their foot down and insist that their children NOT be transported in these death traps.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Venturer 12/11/2025 10:18:17 AM (No. 2039870)
More Wasted spending forced by the Biden idiots who wanted to make a system work before the technology was available.You cannot force technology, it comes along in many ways , but always in it's own time.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: cjjeepercreeper 12/11/2025 11:08:45 AM (No. 2039901)
One of our local school districts just entered into a contract for those death traps with some Canadian company. There is no accounting for idiocy.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Safari Man 12/11/2025 11:17:40 AM (No. 2039905)
Yes, we're trying to get rid of illegal aliens, but this is a bit harsh.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: biffer 12/11/2025 11:38:24 AM (No. 2039913)
Thank you #8 as i thought same thing. Now if there was shady behavior prior to bursting of flames, the details of the individual are important. Unfortunately, in this case, if the individual was a non-white man they wouldn't even point out age, gender or race is lacking.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: JHHolliday 12/11/2025 11:44:25 AM (No. 2039915)
Re #6. I have been retired from the insurance business for some 15 years and I don't know what the vehicle market is like now but I heard that some companies had started putting a large surcharge on ev policies. You could buy a policy but the insurance would cost you more. Maybe someone here knows the current situation. I wouldn't advise anyone to buy an ev without checking with their agent first. I know ICE vehicles can burn also but at least extinguishing a fire in those can be handled a lot quicker. but as of now, I wouldn't want my child to be riding one to school.
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