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Am a vOLUNTEER IN THE rURAL fIRE sERVICE, Bush fire brigade.
a FEW YEARS AGO OUR BRIGADE WAS TOLD if we are called to an Accident with an Hybrid Electric Car we should stand well bACK AND LET IT BURN, EVEN if there are People trapped inside.
See the fumes from the burning batteries are toxic, and our RFS bushfire brigade does not carry breathing equipment.
New car may be different, but that was what we were told a few years ago.
in such a case we would call on our radios for a Town Brigade with breathing gear, but by then any occupants of that electric car would be dead.
So these cars may suit in the city, but not away from the city.
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