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A Melbourne family’s home has been gutted by fire and the cause is believed to be a battery from a common power tool that exploded. Kaitlin Speary arrived at her Narre Warren home to find smoke billowing from the bedroom and through the house. She called firefighters and put out the fire, which caused about $100,000 worth of damage. They then found the culprit, an Ozito lithium-ion battery.
” The type of rechargeable battery that sparked this fire is also common in other power tools, as well as laptops, vacuum cleaners and e-scooters. “The biggest risk is when lithium-ion batteries have been damaged or waterlogged and that’s where we start seeing fires caused by the damaged battery,” Darren McQuade from Fire Rescue Victoria said.
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