Best Practices for Emergency Response to Electric Vehicle Battery Hazards project launched by Foundation

In the light of recent incidents involving electric vehicle battery hazards, the Foundation, with support from the Departments of Energy and Transportation and the Alliance of Automotive Manufacturers, has initiated a project to develop the technical basis for first responder emergency response procedures. The project will include full-scale fire tests and a compilation of best practice information on firefighting operations and post-incident procedures.

The project comes out of NFPA's partnership with the DOE, begun in 2009, to develop and implement a comprehensive training program for emergency response to electric vehicle (EV) incidents. Currently this program provides safety training to 25,000 emergency responders in order to prepare them for their role in safely handling incidents involving EVs.  However, there is a lack of data to draw on to address the potential hazards associated with damaged EV batteries.

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Comments

[sandro pelissero]

am a firefighter with 22 years of Italian experience in the field. For about three years I follow the new NFPA. I share the problems, serious and interesting Contina evolution. In Italy for years I'm doing interesting research on EV vehicles and HEV (I also played in seminars and courses of action) but here it seems too early for the mentality of relief workers and institutions.
If I had enough information to raise awareness among the best institutions, or be able to contact counterparts in Europe,
to carry out research and testing in sharing.
thanks

[jelly andrews]

This is very informative. Thanks for sharing this one. Great posting!

[Marlon]

Emergency responders are always work for public safety during emergency hours therefore they need proper support and facilities from the authorities to give public better safety, here we noticed the introduction of electric vehicle battery hazards that support the emergency responder for providing emergency services. These electric vehicles are consisting of a number of advanced techniques and features especially designed for emergency hour.