Electric car fire destroys home, the solar system on the roof made extinguishing work more difficult.
They relied on climate protection, now they have no place to stay: In East Hesse, an electric car caused a serious fire – and the solar system on the roof of the house made the extinguishing work more difficult.
Around 2.45 a.m. on early Saturday, a bang woke up the people in the Neuhofer district of Dorfborn.
In the garage of a two-family house, an Audi e-tron was on fire. They attacked the residential building and a Smart parked in front of it – a major alarm for the volunteer fire brigades from four Neuhöfer districts. Emergency services also arrived from Fulda.
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50 firefighters were finally on site. The batteries and the photovoltaic system on the roof made extinguishing particularly dangerous: In the solar system, the soldiers had to protect themselves from electric shock, in the Audi the batteries had to cool with tons of water to prevent a “thermal runway” – the ignition of one battery cell after another.
Electric Audi sunk into extinguishing basin
For this reason, a specialist company was also deployed to salvage the e-tron.
Chief Inspector Hübscher from the Fulda police said:
This electric vehicle was then transported to an extinguishing basin to prevent further burning of the car.
The only consolation: The neighboring house could be protected from the spread of the fire and there were no injured. But the two-family house is uninhabitable, initial estimates assume around 500,000 euros in damage.
Why the Audi went up in flames in the middle of the night must now clarify fire investigators of the Kripo Fulda.
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E-car fire destroys residential building… and the solar system on the roof made the extinguishing work more difficult, Neuhof (Hesse), June 26, 2022
