Mitigating New Vehicle Rescue Challenges and Electric Vehicle/LI Battery Fire Challenges
New vehicle and lithium-ion battery technologies present ever-changing challenges for rescuers. Students will gain an understanding of how vehicles have changed and will continue to change, along with the extrication and vehicle fire challenges these changes have created for responders. New metallurgy, design, construction, and safety system changes are addressed, as are the latest firefighting challenges presented by EVs, various combustible metals, and lithium-ion battery-fueled fires. Reevaluation of current methods, tactics, and equipment is a recurrent theme. Changes, advances, and limitations in current firefighting and rescue technology are also covered.
