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Race Street fire caused by e-bike charging
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GREG KIELEC greg.kielec@eap.on.ca
The city’s acting fire chief is issuing a word of warning after a fire started by an improperly utilized e-bike battery charger gutted a Race Street home last Tuesday. Richard McCullough said the popular e-bikes and their batteries should not be stored or charged in the home, including a front porch, because of the danger of sparking a fire. “Follow proper procedures not to have it in the front porch of the house,” Mc- Cullough warned other e-bike users who may be putting themselves at risk by charging their bikes in their home. The building’s tenants escaped un- harmed after a “Good Samaritan” alerted the tenants to the fire in the front porch of the small, two-storey home facing the Legion Ballpark, McCullough said. “It started on the front porch and the whole building was involved by the time firefighters arrived,” he said. “The guys did a good job making sure it didn’t spread to other exposures.” But had the firefighters been a few minutes later in
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bikes, especially if they don’t have a de- tached shed. The fire is being blamed on improper use of a charger that was being used to charge the battery of the e-bike in the front porch of the home. Regardless, the Cornwall firefighters work to douse a blaze at a Race Street home caused by an improperly used e-bike battery charger on Tuesday. No one was injured in the blaze which gutted the two-storey home near the Legion Ballpark.
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their arrival, there is a chance the fire could have spread to neighbouring build- ings by that time, he said. McCullough said the Ontario Fire Code prohibits the
“It started on the front porch and the whole building was involved by the time firefighters arrived.”
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storing or charging of batteries from e- bikes, automobiles or boats in the home because of their combustibility. “You are not supposed to have batteries in the house,” he stressed. But he also realizes the difficulty some people face storing and charging their e-
McCullough said it will be up to the landlord, the building’s owner, to deter- mine whether the building can be reno- vated or whether it must be torn down and rebuilt. “The good news is there were no inju- ries. Everyone got out safe.”
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