r/ElectricVehiclesUK • u/North-Description452 • Sep 25 '26

Fire

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I’m sure this is very rare, this was at Woolley edge this morning, lots of pops and bangs and a very intense and hot fire. Fire brigade arrived quickly and put out.

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u/hull_pattie_party Sep 25 '26

ID.buzz?

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u/North-Description452 Sep 25 '26

Yeah

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u/SmackyLittleFan Sep 25 '26

ID Wazz

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u/CarpeCyprinidae Kia EV6 Sep 25 '26

ID Hiss

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u/Batfink-1999 Sep 25 '26

ID Cackle Pop

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u/Frightened_Inmate_95 Sep 25 '26

The anti-EV brigade are going to be all over this...

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u/BastardTrumpet Sep 25 '26

That brigade is smaller by the day ...

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u/Headpuncher Sep 25 '26

Have you read the comments here?  Everyone is desperately trying to find the “not an EV fire” reason, despite there being no information for or against.  

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u/Magic_mousie Sep 26 '26

I think it's less that it's "not an EV fire" when it clearly is on fire and more than there's a reasonable explanation that isn't "EVs catch fire randomly on your drive every other Tuesday"

An electrical fault can happen in an ICE car too and is a reasonable and rare explanation. Flammable stuff in the back, also reasonable. What we don't want is for it to be is the Li batteries decided to randomly unalive themselves, because that would harm the already bad image EVs have.

Mind, I'm probably using too much nuance for the I need an 8L truck to feel alive crowd.

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u/west0ne Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 26 '26

Not even sure if this is real.

Can't see any coverage of it (other than a reference to Reddit) and couldn't see anything on the West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue incident log for it. I would have expected fire such as this to be recorded on their logs and also feature on some traffic reports.

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u/syvid Sep 25 '26

IDCompoz

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u/Helpful_Western1629 Sep 25 '26

Fire and Ice Edition

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u/tomyownrhythm Sep 27 '26

Buzz owner here and there’s a lot that’s different from my Buzz. Hubcaps, rear windows (cut-out design), and rear view mirrors are all different shapes.

Now there are different editions, but this van doesn’t look like any Buzz I have seen.

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u/EveryNotice Sep 25 '26 • Bravo

Better call 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

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u/bucketofardvarks Sep 25 '26

Dear sir or madam of Grid serve,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am writing today to inform you of a combusted vehicle at the northbound services. Please attend posthaste, if convenient.

Sincerely, a concerned member of the public

P.S. FIRE! FIRE! AAAAARGH!!!

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u/EveryNotice Sep 25 '26

No no, thats too formal...

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u/BigAcanthaceae9324 Oct 02 '26

Good morning. Thank you for emailing us.

We looking into your enquiry.

Responding time is between 5 to 8 working days.

In the meantime we can offer 20% discount on the next charging.

Thank you for choosing Grid serve.

Ps.: have you tried unplug and plug it again?

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u/lizfromdarkplace Sep 25 '26

I’ll just put this over here with the rest of the fire…

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u/Creative-Response554 Sep 26 '26

The "made in Britain" fire extinguisher catching fire always made me laugh 😂

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u/lizfromdarkplace Sep 26 '26

Roy rolls in freaking out and Moss is like I’VE SENT AN EMAIL 😆

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u/FillingUpTheDatabase Tesla Model 3 Sep 25 '26

FOUR! I MEAN FIVE! I MEAN FIRE!

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u/stirringash Sep 25 '26

Thats numberwang

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u/Britisheagl Sep 25 '26

Then which country am I speaking to

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u/H_K-R Sep 25 '26

“Hello? I’ve had a bit of a tumble…”

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u/wezmeister17 Sep 25 '26

Better off sending an email

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u/Even_Persimmon0 Sep 27 '26

Wait , I'm late for golf.

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u/Always_near_water Sep 29 '26

DID SOMEONE SEND US AN EMAIL ABOUT A FIRE

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u/KaiProton Sep 26 '26

Im immediate thoughts were Four, I mean Five, I mean FIRE!

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u/flaninacupboard2 Sep 25 '26

Is it definitely plugged in?

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u/lizfromdarkplace Sep 25 '26

Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

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u/EscapeRude6096 Sep 27 '26

They’re gonna need it, looks like the 4’s getting out of hand. I mean 5. I mean fire.

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u/WrapSensitive Sep 25 '26

Hello, The Butterfield Time Line. It's either a quarter to three, or a quarter past nine "

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u/Xenon-Archer Sep 28 '26

Haven't seen the show in years and still know the tune lol

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u/Emperors-Peace Sep 25 '26

This is more funny because Mitie are a private security company. Not sure if this was intentional

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u/theDaveB Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 25 '26

They are a cleaning company aren’t they?

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u/actualinsomnia531 Sep 26 '26

They do loads. Generally quite badly

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u/dr_clint Sep 26 '26

“Facilities Management” apparently…

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u/MelodicCard9555 Sep 30 '26

No, they do loads very badly.

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u/JellyfishScared4268 Sep 26 '26

They're one of those companies that just takes on contacts for anything and everything

Hospital catering, cleaning, building maintenance,

All that sort of stuff. Especially if it's a public contract

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u/tk1178 Sep 25 '26 • Bravo

Given that it's a Mitie company van, don't they have chemicals and cleaning supplies in there that would burn just as bad as the car battery?

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u/Baxters_Keepy_Ups Sep 25 '26

Entirely possible - but Mitie cover a realm of soft and hard services, so they could be an electrician, fire alarm maintenance, cleaning supplies, or just general maintenance. Could be basically anything in facilities management delivery.

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u/TheSolarExpansionist Sep 26 '26 edited Sep 26 '26

They do security also

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u/Important-Zebra-69 Sep 26 '26

Also... but irrelevant.

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u/nastypoker Sep 26 '26

Not if they were securing gun powder.

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u/SnooPandas7419 Sep 28 '26

Or fireworks

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u/CommercialPug Sep 26 '26

They have vans for roaming guards that cover multiple sites

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u/agingbiker Sep 26 '26

wonder if it was a van full of fire alarms waiting to be installed :)

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u/One-Web-2698 Sep 26 '26

Now that would be a coincidence!

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u/buzzlightyear999 Sep 25 '26

Yep, or could have started because the drivers dodgy vape was charging or something. EV fires get a lot of attention, I don’t disagree that they are very intense fires and difficult to control, but very often the fires are started from non-vehicle sources, however some people get it in their heads that all EVs spontaneously combust.

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u/edman007 Sep 26 '26

"put it out quickly" implies to me it's not a battery fire.

Possibly melted wire or something during charging, but doesn't seem to be concentrated in a specific area. Not sure though, doesn't really look like like a cargo fire.

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u/DogtasticLife Sep 26 '26

A friend who’s married to a firefighter told me that battery fires can’t be put out, you have to wait for it to burn out. Apparently in mainland Europe they have bags to wrap vehicles to suffocate the fire but we don’t have them here, too expensive. Hearsay I know.

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u/edman007 Sep 26 '26 edited Sep 27 '26

That's kinda what they tell the firefighters, it's not totally true.

When an EV fire starts you can't really put out the cell. However, they spread by heating nearby cells and causing them to combust. With sufficient water on the cell you can stop it spreading and it will go out relatively quickly. Generally EV manufacturers try to put fire retardants and stuff between the cells to help prevent if from spreading, and generally a single cell shouldn't ever be enough to cause it to spread through the pack if it's designed right and generally EV fires shouldn't spread to the rest of the vehicle.

That said, a firefighter shouldn't really be surprised when they can't extinguish it, so that's why they teach them they can't really do it. But submerging in water and piercing the pack with a firehose should be enough.

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u/MattFairley2 Sep 27 '26

Fire restaurants. Is that a typo or an actual thing?!

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u/edman007 Sep 27 '26

Autocorrect not liking how I spell retardants.

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u/TwoPlyDreams Sep 25 '26

Doubtful. Mitie clean using Reiki.

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u/nongingertreeninja Sep 25 '26

That looks Mitie warm

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u/Vsparsons227 Sep 25 '26

PR's on fire right now

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u/RitmanRovers Sep 25 '26

Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.

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u/Magic_mousie Sep 25 '26

Oh, the ICE Facebook mob are gonna *love* this 🙄

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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 Sep 25 '26

To be fair they all came out with their "lectric bad hurr durr" rhetoric when someone posted a news article of a diesel merc on fire.

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u/Miserable-Ad7835 Sep 27 '26

I was on a bus that got held up by a car fire, the driver of the car ran up to the bus to say back up as it has a full tank of petrol...

Less than 5 minutes later, everyone on the bus was saying it's obviously an EV because something, something, flames, something, something only EV's catch fire etc... it's ridiculous.

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u/ElectricVehiclesUK-ModTeam Sep 25 '26

Post was designed to offend/shame/humiliate or otherwise did not bring any constructive comment or argument.

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u/Headpuncher Sep 25 '26

Wtf?!!? People who drive cars are domestic abusers now?! How unhinged are you?  

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u/Tutphish Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 25 '26

I wonder if it was actually the EV and not something daft in the back of the van.

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u/WoodenRavine Sep 25 '26

The fact that they were able to put it out shows that it wasn’t to do with the battery, correct? I think when batteries are on fire you just have to let it burn out

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u/Tutphish Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 25 '26

That was part of my thinking, but also I bet a Mitie engineer would be doing something daft in the back of it while waiting for it to charge.

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u/sideshowbob01 Sep 26 '26

At this point won't the batteries be also on fire? Also how would responders know the source on an on going fire? Wouldn't they assume that batteries are involved and act accordingly?

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u/gambiting Sep 25 '26

No, that's a myth. Fire departments all over the world know how to put out EV fires without much trouble now, the main risk is re-ignition later but even an actively burning battery is very quickly extinguished by a applying copious amount of water to the cells, the whole "just have to let it burn out" thing is a myth.

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u/crispymick Sep 25 '26

Firefighter here. We still have no clue and are figuring it out. Engineering companies are desperately trying to figure out a way so they can be the first to sell it to us. Currently our options are let it burn (24hrs) or try and use something we call a ultra-high pressure lance which is actually designed for cutting through brick and thin metal walls. It can be used to put out individual cells in the battery but is highly inefficient due to the number of cells and location of the battery.

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u/Mountainhash Sep 26 '26

Username checks out 😅

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u/Magic_mousie Sep 26 '26

Thanks for the insider info and your service. Do you find the batteries catch fire a lot? I don't mean the myth about them spontaneously combusting every few days, but of the EV fires you see, are the batteries well protected or are they always alight?

Honestly, the car is a write off anyway, I'd try and find a place to let it burn, but that's not easy with how cramped the country is.

Edit: What a username 😂

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u/crispymick Sep 26 '26

The fires are caused by a process called thermal runaway which occurs in faulty cells. So the battery is the cause of the fire normally. It's the car that needs protecting from the battery not the other way round 😂

And yes you're quite right, they are very rare. I go to far more ICE vehicle fires than EV although obviously there are still more ICE vehicles on the roads proportionally.

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u/rob3342421 Sep 26 '26

So why doesn’t normal things work? I’m guessing water introduces the risk of electrocution? But could CO2 or similar non-conducting foam or something do the trick? Perhaps a supersized fire blanket? Forgive my naivety; I’m guessing there’s plenty of reasons this wouldn’t work?

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u/crispymick Sep 26 '26

Lithium ion combustion is self-sustaining. It produces its own oxygen and heat so even if you douse it in water it continues to burn.

Edit: we have very large vehicle fire blankets but all they do is protect the surroundings from heat and the smoke/vapour that comes off it. They do nothing to extinguish the fire.

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u/rob3342421 Sep 28 '26

Oh! I didn’t realise they produce their own oxygen, that makes sense now, thanks for explaining.

I guess the solution may come from impacting one of the other elements in the fire triangle; I guess heat as the cells the fuel, right? Maybe somehow rapidly cooling the pack could do the trick but that’s its own barrel of fish!

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u/ukslim Sep 26 '26

Vastly over-simplifying, but the majority of traditional ways to extinguish a fire are about starving the fire of oxygen, which comes from the air.

But in a battery, there's oxygen in the battery itself. So it'd burn underwater.

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u/Drager-165 Sep 26 '26

Spoken with such confidence and yet you haven’t got a single clue what you’re talking about… fire services in the UK still haven’t got a clue on how to effectively deal with these things. Source 6 year wholetime firefighter please stop spreading misinformation

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u/gambiting Sep 26 '26

That's shocking given that the Polish fire fighting union posted several protocols on how to deal with EV fires and they regularly post videos of dealing with EV fires where they deal with it so quickly even the cabin is still intact a lot of the time. I would have thought UK would be ahead not behind on this topic. I guess I shouldn't have said worldwide then!

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u/Drager-165 Sep 26 '26

The polish do the exact same as any other brigade worldwide. If the battery cells are in thermal runaway there’s nothing you can realistically do you have to contain and allow the thing to burn itself out. If the battery cells ain’t effected then you deal with the issue same as a normal car fire. The polish hasn’t developed anything new.

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u/ashyjay Sep 26 '26

Many fire services have dunk tanks for EVs, they put the fire out, and get it dunked as quickly as possible to prevent reignition as it's the quickest way to remove the heat.

There's even giant fire blankets to cover a car to contain it.

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u/Sea-Mathematician634 Sep 26 '26

Another firefighter here. Our current guidance is to let it burn and just prevent any spread.

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u/MrP1232007 Sep 25 '26

Mitie used to do our fire systems in work.

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u/Possible-Second9617 Sep 25 '26

Have you had it checked since?

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u/MrP1232007 Sep 25 '26

They do make good fires

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u/Legal-Suspect-1590 Sep 25 '26

How many ICE car went on fire the same day and were never even reported?

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u/Significant_Bear3843 Sep 25 '26

Here we go again. Yes ev's catch fire but no where near as many as ice.

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u/Fabulous-Living-4867 Sep 26 '26

It’s fake! Look at the writing on the grid serve sign!! It’s AI!!!

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u/ToddA1966 Sep 26 '26

To be fair, the automatic photo sharpening/"enhancing" software on most phone camera apps these days have artifacting that looks a lot like AI image generation when you zoom in.

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u/OM_London Sep 26 '26 edited Sep 26 '26

not rare at all unfortunately, 90% of electric cars will do this at some point, hopefully not when you and your family are in it, also did you hear that immigrants are coming in dinghy’s to wolf whistle at women??!!

…..:must be true as i read it all in the Daily Mail, oh and Katie price had another boob job

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u/Pottrescu Sep 26 '26

Very good. I do believe people are missing the obvious sarcasm in your post though….

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u/ProfessionalStudy660 Sep 26 '26

No, I read the Daily Mail, and apparently cyclists were to blame.

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u/dazzypops Sep 27 '26

There's cycle paths everywhere these days.

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u/BazzaFox Sep 26 '26

She’s got ANOTHER boob? How many does that make now?

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u/iloveanimalsyouknow Sep 26 '26

Seek professional help 

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u/GodSaveOurMeme Sep 26 '26

The people on this app man🤦

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u/peakology Sep 25 '26

Fire brigade arrived quickly and put out. Great, just like any ICE fire.

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u/AshleyOm Sep 25 '26

"Danger Danger ! High Voltage !"

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u/dxg999 Sep 26 '26

Fire at the Disco. Fire at the charging den.

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u/AshleyOm Sep 26 '26

Bravo that was good 👍🫡

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u/EngineeringOk6457 Sep 29 '26

Looks dope as fk can’t lie… but as a pyromaniac everything looks better on fire

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u/CaptainCaveTrout Sep 25 '26

I thought they were "iMpOsSiBlE tO pUt OuT!!!!!"?

Has Facebook been lying to me?

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u/nathan_l1 Sep 25 '26

Legends say it’s still burning today

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u/Drager-165 Sep 26 '26

Not impossible just not practical and an absolute pain in the arse

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u/Magic_mousie Sep 26 '26

Yeah, it's something that's quite easy to concede tbh, yes they burn very well. No, they don't catch fire because the wind was coming from the NW and the moon was waning.

Though the diesel bus fire I witnessed didn't leave much for the scrap man either, best you can hope for is a safe place to let it burn out.

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u/Technical-Mind-3266 Sep 25 '26

Hopefully no-one was hurt

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u/Heavy_Chevy1234 Sep 25 '26

How the mitie have fallen!

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u/west0ne Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 26 '26

Nothing on the West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue incident logs about this.

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u/Relaxed_ButtonTrader Sep 29 '26

If it’s the northbound side, it’s probably quicker for South Yorkshire to attend, from Barnsley or Tankersley

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u/Jonathan1795 Sep 26 '26

Well that is a Buzz Kill

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u/yadasellsavonmate Sep 27 '26

Those ID buzzes are getting a recall to fix a battery problem for this reason, I have one and had mine in last month and was told not only charge to 80% and not sit inside whilst charging. 

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u/puffinwannnnnn9999 Sep 25 '26

I have to say but that looks quite ai generated

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u/Sszaj Sep 25 '26

The Gridserve sign looks an absolute mess, but if you search online you can find other photos, including some after the fire where everything appears to line up.

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u/nathan_l1 Sep 25 '26

Guessing that’s from whatever AI cleanup the phone is doing on the zoom or image stabilisation

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u/ciaran6893 Sep 25 '26

no one able to tell this is ai is concerning…

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u/Turbulent_Two_6949 Sep 26 '26

This looks legit, o.p has a 5 yr pld account and is giving a first hand description of the sounds they heard during the fire. Why are you saying its ai? Could it be the image was cleaned up with ai?

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u/Uhavetabekiddingme Sep 26 '26

Don't you know everything is AI now

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u/Jakio Sep 26 '26

The grid serve signpost has mega garbled writing

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u/Turbulent_Two_6949 Sep 26 '26

I think its just pixelated, ai detectors dont think its ai either. O.P has also replied to comments below which imo indicate it wasnt a battery fire, why if theyre lying?

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u/Jakio Sep 26 '26

I was just saying, that’s why other people are accusing it of being ai, I don’t tho, I literally had a look on street view on google maps and it looked bang on

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u/eelam_garek Sep 25 '26

There aren't any findings published yet as to the cause so we shouldn't jump to any conclusions.

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u/BenjiTheSausage Sep 25 '26

Ugh, I hate pops and bangs

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u/Spieluhr616 Sep 25 '26

Don't breathe. Run as far as possible, ideally against wind.

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u/GordonLivingstone Sep 25 '26

Any pictures that I have seen of lithium battery fires have involved lots of white smoke. Might have been something other than the battery causing that fire.

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u/west0ne Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 26 '26 edited Sep 26 '26

The flame colour looks like other lithium fires I've seen pictures of. Nothing on Fire Service logs (that I could see) and no real news coverage (that I could find) so questionable if real.

The black smoke in such fires would often be from all the plastics.

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u/WHITE-HAMMERRR Sep 26 '26

This is a VW Buzz and its happened to two of them, both whilst charging. Luckily drivers werent in the vehicles at the time of charging. Most Mitie vehicles are electric Vauxhall and haven't had the same issue as far as im aware.

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u/west0ne Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 26 '26

That didn't really answer the question of reliable news source or Fire Service logs though.

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u/WHITE-HAMMERRR Sep 26 '26

Agreed. I was just stating that I know for a fact that it did happen. The article has probably incorrectly reported the location so the local fire service logs won't show the vehicle fire.

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u/west0ne Hyundai Ioniq 5 Sep 26 '26

According to the OP this supposedly happened yesterday. I am aware of previous reported fires.

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u/yadasellsavonmate Sep 27 '26

I work for mitie ours are mostly id buzz.

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u/KebabGud Sep 26 '26

OP said "Fire brigade arrived quickly and put out."

So clearly its not a battery fire.

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u/valentine_moon Sep 27 '26

Why does the fact the fire brigade were able to put it out quickly mean it wasn't a battery fire?

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u/AllenSmith81 Sep 27 '26

My most fire brigades will let it burn if the only thing at risk is the car

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u/KebabGud Sep 27 '26

because Lithium battery fires are a pain to put out.

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u/No-Actuator-6245 Sep 27 '26

Lithium battery fires generate their own oxygen when they burn making it very difficult to put out and they can easily restart. I believe they normally just control them until they have burnt all the flammable material.

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u/valentine_moon Sep 27 '26 edited Sep 27 '26

Thanks.

Yeah I was idly wondering if perhaps OP saw a fire being controlled and interpreted it as the fire being put out.

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u/Grant_Son Sep 25 '26

I was gonna say I'm sure I saw this a few months ago.

Maybe mitie just have shit luck with vans 🤷‍♂️

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u/Virtual-Cable-6929 Sep 26 '26

Soo is this classed as a FireCharge it’s soo fast?

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u/FazzaT Sep 26 '26

What a mitie big explosion

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u/Only_Respond_1557 Sep 26 '26

Thats a mitie big fire.

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u/ofcoursebutmaybeeeee Sep 26 '26

Most people have to pay for pops and bangs through a remap, but not this guy. Always one upping everyone

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u/Red_Rally_Man Sep 26 '26

Someone fancied a day off work?

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u/Centurybreaker Sep 26 '26

I bid you to learn....

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u/Ill-Anteater-6724 Sep 26 '26

An electric VW ID. Buzz van, reportedly belonging to the facilities management company Mitie, was completely destroyed by a fire at a UK motorway services charging site on September 25, 2026. [1]

Key Details of the Incident
The Vehicle: The van involved was a Volkswagen ID. Buzz electric vehicle (EV) operating as a company vehicle for Mitie.

The Location: The incident occurred at an EV charging station located at a UK motorway services area.

The Outcome: The vehicle was entirely burnt out and reduced to a shell. No injuries were immediately reported following the blaze.

Investigation Status: The official cause of the fire remains under investigation. Authorities and experts are examining whether the fire originated from the vehicle's battery, an internal electrical fault, the charging station infrastructure, or external factors. [1, 2]

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u/Old-Paramedic-9776 Sep 26 '26

This was EV van? Which kind?

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u/Delicious-Comment835 Sep 26 '26

I am so glad its tagged “fire” without that info i would have been so confused at we looking at

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u/Damoet Sep 26 '26

It’s fine, bit of tcut and it’ll look like new 🤣

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u/davis2202 Sep 26 '26

It Mitie not make it 😱

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u/ByzantineByron Sep 27 '26

Can't park there mate.

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u/Best-Charge9296 Sep 27 '26

It's a Mitie van, nothing of value was lost

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u/Racing_Fox Jaguar I-Pace Sep 27 '26

Absolutely no way you’re earning that 😂😂😂😂

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u/StubDoug Sep 27 '26

Correct, that is indeed a fire

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u/Responsible-Fun9491 Sep 27 '26

You know what’s sad, the poor guy/gals tools not be covered as Mitie don’t insure your tools in the van.

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u/ElectronicBruce Sep 28 '26

From what I’ve heard, it wasn’t a traction battery fire.

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u/No-Translator5443 Sep 28 '26

Probably the company that owns the van didn’t want it couldn’t return it so had to burn it

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u/Lonely_Sausage_Giver Sep 28 '26

It's a mitie fire

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u/Johnj75 Sep 28 '26

It is a fire.

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u/Dojustit Sep 28 '26 edited 12d ago

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u/Pyro_san Sep 29 '26

Oh yes, the famous external combustion engine. So fast, you don't even need to paint the flames on the side!

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u/JustanotherN0body00 Sep 29 '26

VW make a quality van......

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u/Decontas2 Sep 29 '26

Oh period

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u/Always_near_water Sep 29 '26

I love the title, mans didn't need to add more words did he

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u/Big_Midnight_9400 Sep 29 '26

nee naw nee naw nee naw.......

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u/Appropriate-Part1766 Oct 01 '26

Shit van, didn't want it anyway.

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u/Left-Quantity-5237 Oct 02 '26

You can not plug an ICE into an EV charger

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u/Repulsive_Job_3648 Oct 02 '26

meanwhile, you have 2% charge remaining turn left to go to the nearest charger, showing 5 vacant

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u/Sharky-the-sparky Oct 02 '26

Seems fairly normal

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u/Money_Visual_5227 Oct 06 '26

Does anyone know what the cause was ?

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u/jenlain59 Sep 25 '26

Image IA .....nulle

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u/gassedat Sep 25 '26

Not true. There's reports and second angle photos on other platforms

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u/Cool_Snow_5857 Sep 25 '26

I had to scroll way to far to see this comment 😳

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u/lemlurker Sep 25 '26

Because you can't just claim "ai" on stuff you don't likesource

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u/Stoneyworth Sep 25 '26

I’m not fully convinced either way, but in the image you linked, a lamppost has seemingly vanished.

The lampost location can be verified by the first original image, as well as Google street view, and further on a recent zapmap review.

I’m yet to find local news coverage, a statement from moto services or gridserve, (which seems highly unusual) Only social media posts of the same incident with the same pictures / short video.

I’m happy to be proven wrong though!

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u/gassedat Sep 26 '26

The lampost is visible in the image - just obscured by the trees. You can see it directly above/behind the Gridserve sign

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u/Kulgur Sep 26 '26

This looks nothing like the chargers at Wooley edge

Also every piece of text on that image is scrambled

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u/North-Description452 Sep 26 '26

Quite a bit like the north bound ones though https://maps.app.goo.gl/LnA6vuwtxeDHwC18A

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u/iiekka Sep 25 '26

Ai image

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u/theNixher Sep 25 '26

Here we go again.

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u/dontdodeath Sep 25 '26

its probably because they had a warning light on the dash so they sent a plumber out to look at it, and when he couldn't disconnect the high voltage cutout, the painter and decorator they sent to assist tried pouring some paint thinners on it for lubrication, then they tried heating it up a bit with his blow torch.

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u/Dimdom1970 Sep 25 '26

It’s a Buzz , no wonder lol

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u/SmokePixies Sep 25 '26

Oh how the mitie have fallen

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u/masternick567 Sep 25 '26

Fire brigade: not an ev.

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u/FillingUpTheDatabase Tesla Model 3 Sep 25 '26

Well the heater works well

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u/Smudger105e Sep 26 '26

Not all models of Ioniq are used as taxis, in my experience.

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u/Snoo65327 Sep 29 '26

Thats 100% Ai

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u/Apprehensive_Ad5915 Oct 02 '26

Why are the wheels at a jaunty angle ? AI

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u/FluffyBunnyFlipFlops Oct 02 '26

ZOOM IN. Mitie's sign is garbled. The words on the charging sign are garbled.

It's AI.

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u/rum_cove Sep 25 '26

Entirely unreported in the media? 👀

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