Adam Barowy

The Firehouse Yak: Adam Barowy – The Latest on FSRI’s Electric Vehicle Fire Research Adam Barowy, from UL Research Institute’s Fire Safety Research Institute, discusses the findings from three years’ worth of research involving electric vehicle fires and what firefighters need to know.

With the ever expanding use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery-powered devices, a new wave of fires is occurring, particularly in urban and suburban communities. Departments are responding to fires that involve Li-ion batteries in vehicles, e-scooters and energy storage systems. These fires ignite and accelerate differently from “traditional” fires.

Challenges to Incident Response at Secured Data Centers The advancement and increasing affordability of lithium-ion (li-ion) battery technology is revolutionizing every product sector from personal electronic devices to vehicles, and more recently, data centers. Data centers must operate their computing equipment with maximal uptime.