Highway Closed as 3-Alarm Blaze Erupts at Lithium Battery Plant - Fire Officials Can Only Watch it Burn

In the past year, lithium-ion battery fires in electric vehicles have led to blazing wrecks along highways that take firefighters hours to extinguish and buildings that go up like a torch from fires that cannot be swiftly brought under control.

 

And now, a plant that uses lithium to make components for batteries for electric vehicles has gone up in flames.

 

A plant belonging to the Livent Corp. was on fire early Monday in the North Carolina town of Bessemer City, according to WCNC-TV in Charlotte.

The company said there were no reports of injuries and that all employees were accounted for.

 

The fire was declared a three-alarm blaze. Images from the scene showed firefighters not attempting to battle the massive flames, letting the fire burn itself out.

 

Crews battle 3-alarm fire at lithium plant in North Carolina https://t.co/4NII5oL0Yl

— KYOU (@KYOUTV) June 26, 2023

 

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