Real sorry to hear of a fellow racers injuries and wish him a speedy recovery, i'm sure he was doing his best in panic to save others and kit around him as a lot of us would in that split second by removing the blaze.
How many clubs have sand buckets available or even extinguishers? especially indoor ones based in school halls and gyms etc?
It's a rare problem, seen one flare up in a car in last 4 years (Durango 4WD rear driveshaft pin puncturing case) but still a nasty potential so we all need to think a bit smarter and take care, especially when we all cram indoors pitting in bunches at busy winter meetings.
Just ordered a 50 Cal ammo box for home storage, should squeeze a few saddle packs in fine looking at dimensions.
Will be making up sand bags using dry sand and plastic freezer sacks or something similar to line it with under around and on top of lipos just for home storage.
Been semi retired for while but it does cross my mind having a few packs sat in separate lipo sacks in the house is not enough to prevent serious damage and expense or worse.
Can live with smoke mess and couple of hundred £'s of lipos going up and needing replacing but not with the potential worst... especially when we don't spend 24hrs a day guarding them when not in use.
Lipo sacks need homologating, controlled destruction testing, possibly using the lipo packs sent by distributors for homologation?
one school hall fire will wipe out cheap BRCA insurance for all of us!
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