DENVER (KDVR) — Four people are displaced from their home after a fire involving an electric scooter battery in Arapahoe County on Tuesday.
South Metro Fire Rescue and the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office responded to a fire at a multi-family residence on East Harvard Avenue, according to a post on X from South Metro Fire Rescue.
Not long after the initial post, South Metro Fire provided an update that crews were on the scene, had water on the fire and everything was under control. However, the hazmat team had to respond to the fire after learning that a lithium-ion battery was possibly in the blaze.
Four people were displaced due to the fire and are being assisted by the Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming. Another unit in the building sustained water damage, but was unoccupied at the time of the fire.
The hazmat crew was able to retrieve the lithium-ion battery, which was attached to an electric scooter. The scooter was pulled from the fire, and the hazmat team is working with South Metro Logistics to dispose of the scooter.
The fire will be investigated by the South Metro Fire Rescue Fire Marshall’s Office.
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