WE SHOULD HEAD BACK OUT TO THE GRAND

CONCOURSE AND SEE IF WE CAN FURTHER THE STORY!

FOLO UP TO FIRE:

FACTS:

● FIVE-ALARM FIRE
● HAPPENED ON SUNDAY (YESTERDAY)
● 2096 GRAND CONCOURSE, BRONX - CONCOURSE FOOD PLAZA SUPERMARKET
● FIRE BROKE OUT AT 10:30A
● 200 FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED TO THE SCENE
● THE FIRE SPREAD TO THE LAUNDROMAT & FLOWER SHOP NEXT DOOR
● FIVE FIREFIGHTERS WERE INJURED
● ONE EMS MEMBER WAS INJURED
● ONE CON-EDISON WORKER WAS INJURED
● POLICE SAY NONE OF THE INJURIES ARE LIFE THREATENING
● CAUSE OF THE FIRE WAS AN LITHIUM ION BATTERY IN AN ELECTRIC BIKE
● THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED IT TO CATCH FIRE
● THESE BIKES HAVE CAUSED MULTIPLE FIRES ACROSS NYC OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS
● THERE IS LEGISLATION IN CITY COUNCIL TO MAKE E-BIKE BATTERIES NOT UNIVERSAL
AND SUITABLE ONLY FOR DEVICE IT CAME WITH
● FDNY COMMISSIONER LAURA KAVANAGH WROTE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
ASKING FOR MORE REGULATION ON THE ELECTRIC SCOOTERS.

DATA:
NUMBER OF FIRES CAUSED BY LITHIUM ION BATTERIES IN NYC
2022: 216 fires
2021: 104 fires
2020: 44 fires
2019: 28 fires
SOUND:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cYfBxZ3vUKD0fP_Si1VClNML4L7vlZfB/view?usp=sharing

Name unknown//Lives near grocery store

"There is nothing left. and it is all because of this one single bike."

Maribel Olivades// Owns flower shop next door

"My family depends for… the flowers. (This is how you're supporting your family.) Yes, my
family."

Michael Reynoso// Lives next door

"When I went outside, I saw the flames and wondered if it was gonna possibly spread through."

"The bikes are a concern for the community because they're left out, they're left charging,
sometimes people overcharge them or they don't know how to properly use them.

VIDEO
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11CTxCli9Qnwxk66FWHev083-JtlXTUzo/view?usp=sharing

● Aftermath of building next day - no fire

● Video inside of the e-bike catching fire
● Close up of the fire roaring
● firefighter fighting the flames
● A shot of the destroyed e-bike