News / Lithium batteries blamed for blaze at UK warehouse storing electric scooters

Photo: Essex County Fire & Rescue Service

Breaking out in the small hours of Sunday morning, another lithium battery fire, this one at a UK warehouse for mobility scooters, required firefighters to be on station for more than 12 hours.

Essex County fire and rescue service said yesterday that the cause of the fire, which started at a distribution centre for CareCo mobility scooters, at Turing Court, Great Notley, near Braintree, Essex, was “accidental”.

The blaze’s duration of the fire necessitated some 50 firefighters, Incident Commander ...