I-15 traffic nightmare: truck carrying lithium batteries catches fire, shuts down interstate
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- I-15 traffic nightmare: truck carrying lithium batteries catches fire, shuts down interstate
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This is why you keep your gas tank full and bring drinks and a portable urinal when on the road.....you never know.
Shitters full
I do all the time even when driving to san francisco
Exactly
Yes! Absolutely! Especially if you're leaving a main destination.
Nobody expects this to happen
The truck driver was charged with aggravated battery.
lolz
🤣🤣🤣
Lost his job, hear he got fired.
I just made it out of I-15, 8 hours of pain, I’m so happy rn
Im in it right now😢
@@lightupshetcher Dam bro good luck for sadness and pain 🥲
My husband is in it right now, im hoping it clears soon!
Wow! It's HOT, but you also need to save gas
@@Ccboy6 I'm older in good health but the heat zaps me now. I worked in 121 palm springs and m work area was 130...15 years later I wouldn't do that again
Ban all EVs if this is what is going to happen
Because oil leaks are less destructive at oil rig sites in the gulf coast? Hilarious. EV's living in your head rent free lil bro.
@@watchingnowhereyou are an idiot.
1) Children are dying as slave laborers, mining the trace minerals for your EV batteries.
2) The mineral processing plants and battery manufacturing plants have created polluted wastelands around their plants.
3) EV s are less efficient that gasoline vehicles.
4) After the EV's ridiculously short life, ot cannot reasonably be repaired. They cannot be recycled. There are currently EV graveyards with 1000s of EVs decomposing and further polluting the environment.
I wish you libtards would educate yourselves before approaching the keyboard.
@watchingnowhere little bother.. oh brother
@@watchingnowhere Remember Nordstrom, now think of the Gulf Rig in a new light.
That looks like it was soposed to be a portable power bank. Huge capacity. But I agree ban electric only cars lol
NO MORE E V s
better not vote for kammie.
@@janetannerevans2320living rent free in your head lil bro
How do you know these were EV batteries? Almost all battery powered electronics, such as cell phones, are powered by Lithium Ion batteries. It could be a load of those.
How many electric cars got stuck on the road because their batteries died!
@@niceride so you think fuel caused this accident? did it hy-jack the truck and wreck it? That danged fuel.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@niceridethe truck is on fire because of the batteries, retard.
When an EV is not moving, it uses very little power. The motor isn't moving. There is no such thing as idling. AC will use power, but far less than when the car is moving. I suspect a reasonably 50% full EV battery can keep the AC on for a least a day, if the temperature is not set too low, because EVs are so much more efficient than gas cars.
@@davidswan482 Then why I have read stories of EV owners leaving their cars at the Airport with 30% or less of a charge on their batteries and when they return 5 to 7 days later, the battery is dead? Both of these stories can't be true . . . or can they?????
The fact it takes chp and caltrans days to clean this up reflects the failure the Californian govt is.
Wow. A truck fire with lithium batteries on the I-15? Hopefully, everyone is okay. Traffic jams are bad enough without this!
I was there with no AC😢
13 hours and 3 packs of ice - to cool off. 😢
BRO SAME MY AC FR BROKE BC OF THE HEAT
@@user-mz9dz2uw4p Damn, was CHP doing anything to help the stranded motorists?
@@MH_6160 nope i was in the car for 8 hours straight
@@MH_6160There aren't enough CHP officers to handle all of idiots driving around in this climate 😮
Left LA at 7:30pm last night and it’s 10:29am and I’m still an hour away. CHP and CalTrans have been non existent on the roads and we weren’t informed of the closure until we were already at the stopping point. Never seen anything like this
Unreal....
When minutes matter, they're days away.
Welcome to the third world where things like this are the norm.
Same, I was stuck on the road for 12 hours trying to get from LA to Las Vegas.
Just wait until California has every lithium battery powered trucks on the highway ,,,
California and EV's living rent free in your head lil bro.
When California goes Yellowstone goes so we mine the fault lines at the salt n sea for lithium and subsidize electric cars 😂
Good watches have capacitors not batteries unfortunately God is for lithium miners to blame for California falling into the ocean 🙏.
No catastrophe goes to waste because they're all engineered so we grow marijuana indoors just to complain about power outages or fires created by them and dead firemen.
The con job capital of the world is no place for me.
they really really need more turn arounds. just basic ways to get people off the damn road. its hot out there and some ppl dont have 8 hours of gas.
Definitely. Its a terrible, terrible, terrible design flaw.
Makes absolutly zero sense in any capacity to not have turn offs onto side roads all over. Traffic naturally disperses.
Who gives a fuck? nothing is around there, builds plenty.
@@runits I think buses and transport people to high school gyms. If this was three weeks ago when it was 119 there would be many deaths...
@@niceride Who's going to reimburse all those stuck in traffic for their inconvenience from all that burning lithium battery?😁
@@niceridewould you reimburse the families of the slave children who die mining the trace minerals for your batteries?
@@niceridebtw fucktard, fossil fuels created the electricity your inefficient vehicle consumes.
Imagine running low in an EV while stuck in this traffic.
You could have an EV with solar panels, right? There's yer answer.
@@joeysplats3209you know solar power panels with the sq of a car cannot power that car? Check Engineering Explained
@@joeysplats3209 wrong LMFAO
While watching a Li fire producing all those toxic fumes all around you.
The irony writes itself
Graveyard shift got really busy. Usually we don't get this many guests at this hour. Sorry to hear what happened to you guys. Enjoy your stay and be safe.
Is this what’s causing all the smoke or is it a forest fire? It smells really Smokey tonight way more than usual even for a forest fire
@@MissesRobot It's the forest fire in CA plus the strong winds. It's never this smoky unless there's a fire... which 99% of the time is always taking place in CA. I like the smell, reminds me of church, but it's messing with my breathing.
Where do you work at? I was wondering if the restaurants would get busy during this mess.
Gonna be lots of these when forced to buy a 60 thousand dollar EV
Most won't own or drive a car I haven't even driven one in over 20 yrs..now
@@christopherlucy1772loser.
@@nicerideretard.
@@niceride...OK, $120,000⁰⁰.....updated enough?
@@christopherlucy1772 I prefer Liberty.
Hazmat accident! Dangerous fumes! Poisonous water from fire fighting.
Hazmat? but these are the same batteries the EVs are supposed to be saving the environment with! 😂
@@mikeklinger1712 If you seriously believe that, you have been fed fake media lil bro. Batteries, like any other product has waste. There are proper ways to get rid of waste, so ofc it'll take a while champ.
@@watchingnowherelol....yeah, it's that simple 😅
The desert is no joke during the summer if your car breaks down… I alway have extra water, cooler of ice back up battery for my phones, snacks and a plan if traffic backs up like this.
You are wise 👍👍
Exactly
i live 30 miles south of crash. Be careful people, the heat will kill even with water...there are concrete culverts under freeway...that is the only shade out there.
@scott-gy6fe smh I've been driving to vegas since 1990 their are alot of exits to jump on the 15 south
Absolutely.
Yesterday was the worst coming back from Vegas. I left Vegas after my delivery around 11am and luckily I listened to my gps that took me through searchlight. The drive was brutal. I was back in LA around 6pm.
part of the jib.,
winter time, you could get stuck somewhere in Wyoming or Montana for 3 to 5 days due to road closures..
29 and a half years OTR driver here..
Do you think it's possible to go to Vegas from los angeles by taking the 40 freeway
Yes it’s possible. You have to go through Searchlight or the Mojave National Preserve. Take the 15 to 40 to Route 66 to 95… it adds about an hour and a half to the trip but you will get there….
That road to searchlight does seem to go on forever. Been there.
No recourse ! You are screwed and the CHP will not let you turn around.
If you happen to have a roll of TP, you could sell it for $300
I’d turn around anyway cite me I’ll take that over sitting there
I would turn around if possible
@@BrianWaller-qe7gr Turn around and drive the wrong way on an interstate? You'd be arrested on the spot, not "cited"
@kendallevans4079 If that gets my family to an air conditioned CHP post and my car towed to a lot where I can pay a fine and be on our way than so much the better.
@@Zoetropeification You would be ARRESTED! The "good family man" plea doesn't work in situations like this
Did she say BLM ???
yes , Land Management..
LOL!!!
Near the Mojave National Preserve, the BLM doesn’t want all of those gorgeous Joshua trees burning 🥵 down!
Bureau of Land Management.
Yes! They are fire experts!
Passing through today heading west thank God. It’s absolutely brutal on the i40 east. Avoid at all costs!
Why anyone lives in this area of the country puzzles me. I live in the South. We have grass, trees, lakes, rivers and all kinds of flowering plants. I could never live in the desert.
I live in the Canadian bush in a province with 250 000 lakes (take that Minnesota). I couldn't handle the desert. I wish we had winters like the American south though.
Please keep us updated with the road
You know, this is pretty grim. It's fortunate no one was hurt or killed by this fire. Lithium batts! Talk about a 'mixed blessing'. Those boys, while great and long lasting while operative, can be awfully, shall we say, prone to flammability...? Two stories come to mind, both of which you can search: the UPS flight in Europe carrying a cargo of Li batts went down after the load caught fire. And do you recall the horrible dive boat fire off CA coast some years back? In my view that was an Li fire. 35 folks on board, all of them plugging in their phones, comps, etc before they went to bed, on a 35 yr old cruiser. All it took was one spark and that boat went up like a bomb, no one below had a chance. Investigators claimed they couldn't determine the cause of the blaze. Hmmmm. Not that hard to figure out...unless you didn't want to determine it.
Anyway, I wouldn't take an EV vehicle if I was given one. Not even close to being worth the risk - not to mention the door locking issues - yikes!!!
The heat generated by that many lithium batteries is hot enough to melt the road. Cleanup will involved some serious repair work.
It wasn't fire, it was rainbows and unicorns
Because of this, I had to return to California again when I was already arriving in Las Vegas, but here they love to put on a show.
It smells terribleb in that entite area. Cant be good to breathe all that
It should be fine! According to the Democrats, these batteries are supposed to help the environment 😂😂
@@mikeklinger1712 democrats living rent free in your little head lil bro.
@@watchingnowhere unfortunately neighboring! I'm in the state trying to be Commifornia's twin!
It’s very toxic. Search for Hydrogen Fluoride the gas released from burning lithium batteries. Destroys lungs. Passes through skin.
Headline says the truck caught fire, when it appears that what caught fire was the batteries in the cargo container, plus the fire didn't shut down the interstate, the interstate was shut down in response to the fire.
My sister in Law was Visiting us , here in Summerlyn, Nevada, and left thusday to go home to newprt Beach, and got stopped with everyone else, and her car over heated, and she had to wait in her car for two Hours for the tow truck to bring her back to Primm at State line to get the car fixed. Today she plans to head home again,, how to spoil a vacation!
Back when I was younger, you could easily cool down a Ford or an Oldsmobile just by turning on the heater. Too bad times are changing, and car manufacturers are trying to make money by hoping there could be no way for the average Joe to fix a car on his own. Manufacturers would rather have your car stop functioning, so you have to buy another car.
@@MrJuvefrankyep, it's sad
Saving the planet one toxic meltdown at a time!
Hope all are okay!! Prayers their way. It is a nightmare.
My family and I were stuck out on I15 yesterday for 8 hours. The fact that there are no ways around that section of roadway is the cause of the problem. The state of California knows it and does nothing about it. CHP gave us no updates and we no way to know what was going on due to cell phone service being spotty. This whole debacle was a major failure of so many state agencies. Cal Trans for not building new roads/freeways around the area, CHP for being ass holes out there not helping anyone just yelling at us to get back in our cars, San Bernardino County for being slow to respond without having a clue what to do and this proven because the roadway is still shut down.
you try putting lithium fires out. The state is billions in debt and like it or not an EV is in your future if you live in Calif.
@ThePeaPodFamily Amateur Radio Service (a.k.a. "ham" radio) license exams are administered by your community for a nominal fee that covers testing and materials; crucially the test material is at an 8th-grade reading level and there is no age limitation. In the two instances I've actually needed to put this skill and earned license privilege to use it has saved a few people from tragic outcomes. Otherwise it lives in a glovebox ready for some situation that I hope is never needed and I renew for my license with the FCC once per decade. Give yourself another option besides cell phone coverage and look into getting involved with your local community Amateur Radio Service operations 🙂
@@nicerideor at minimum a GMRS.
Just a side note , anecdote . When you hear the low unemployment numbers reported , observe this phenomenon - The sheer number of people on the roads , airports , lakes , rivers , oceans , sitting at home , etc is absolutely staggering . The amount of easy money that's been pumped into the system has allowed and enabled all of this leisure activity . Every road in the world is now filled with travelers , living the high life . Very few are actually going to work .
The truck was off to the side of the road. Looks like they could have opened one lane but they were just being overly cautious.
Heat might be the reason why. Lithium ion batteries 🔋 burn hotter than the Sun’s ☀️ surface!
batteries pop like bullets. the firemen are in charge and they don't know enough about lithium fires yet.better from a safety standpoint to keep your distance.
Better safe than sorry.But People will just slow down and take pictures and video
When lived in So. Cal, I quit driving to Vegas. I flew, and rented a car.
Flame on
Took me 17 hours yesterday drove from LA to Vegas
What time did you leave? This was all over the news. My friend told me about it yesterday.I was at work
I drove through Wednesday from coast back to Utah 13 hours but that’s typical.
@@BrianWaller-qe7gr I left at 5:30pm from LA, arrived Vegas at 7am
Took us 10 hrs to get to vegas😒
thats just flamingo traffic.
In 2005, I hopped on a freight train, and it took me 12 hours to get from City of Industry, Ca to Las Vegas, NV.
You probably saved a lot of money by not being able to gamble.
The delay is the least of your problems. These batteries give off toxic chemicals when they burn too.
I turned around yesterday
Wanted ne driving through dessert for 8 hours and I drive a low ass Lexus
Shocked! I am shocked!
People put their children on top of battery packs in their cars all the time, what's the problem?
Vicious bro
What if you have the runs?
you'll have a brown seat
Trot on out to the desert and squirt away.
Dry run. Prepare yourselves.
terrible, terrible, terrible design flaw not having more turns offs, side roads.
Makes absolutly zero sense in any capacity to not have turn offs onto side roads all over. Traffic naturally disperses.
Who gives a fuck? nothing is around there, builds plenty.
Who the f designed this garbage?
😂 this is your Build back better.
"Write me up a one twenty-five. Post my face: Wanted dead or alive. Take my license; all that jive... I can't drive... fifty-five!!"
Safer for environment, NOT!
How much pollution did that have??? Lol
The solution to "what to do" with the truckload of damaged batteries is NOT to leave it beside the main road and destroy traffic for a week while you wait for the damaged batteries to either catch fire or cool off. They should have a wrecker or bulldozer pull the wreck 25 yards off into the desert , assign a CHP officer with a radio and a patrol car to watch it and open up the traffic. The priority used to be to keep the traffic rolling but the modern response is to order a truckload of red cones, yellow tape and electronic signs. What do you expect from a state that has outlawed gasoline burning cars in ten years? They are detached from reality.
A good reason to fly to Vegas. If there’s a delay, you’re waiting in air conditioning with access to water and bathrooms.
Will ride a horse if no gas vehicles are ever around,may be slow but sure,it worked a few decades ago.
You better believe I'm driving through the desert.
How is this safer than nuclear power plants? At least nuclear power plants have redundant cooling capability.
Ahhh... Clean energy... It's a wonderful thing, ain't it?
Is this the line for Burning Man?
Lithium batteries are very hazardous; cannot be put out with water if on fire, many hazardous chemicals.
They aren’t any more dangerous than standard batteries. They just have different chemical properties of lead acid batteries. They are prone to fires in extreme heat above 140 and sub zero temperatures. Although lead acid batteries get weakened by high temperatures they won’t catch fire. This is why you can’t check lithium when you fly because they have to be in a climate controlled environment
Burning lithium batteries release hydrogen fluoride an acid that destroys lung tissue and can result in acute respiratory failure. It’s deadly. Move up wind and away from burning lithium batteries
@@BrianWaller-qe7grlithium batteries are prone to fire in sub zero temperatures? Why is that? My only experience with them is in power tools but I live I a country with cold winters.
This happened in the cajon pass
Lithium batteries pose environmental hazards now and into the future. Are they really our clean energy solution?
Time to give up your cell phone, which is powered by a Lithium Ion battery.
Thats a terrible hyway , no turn around . Glad i wasnt in a jam with my ac running in my all electric pos.
But there are a lot of exits depends Where you are at.
@@1990758not where this happened.
Maybe batteries like this should be banned?
Time to give up your cell phone. They are powered by Lithium Ion batteries.
@@davidswan482 Apple & Orange debate😂 Kinda like Bidet & Vice-Bidet they're the same right?
Very green
Why didn't they close the highway in that direction as soon as the wreck happened and/or direct the traffic temporarily to the opposite lanes until the wreck was cleared? That happens all the time with road construction.
Where exactly? I'm confused
Cant you just drive off road on the desert?
Dont use water!!
tried drinking antifreeze and it sent me to the hospital.
What happens near Vegas , stays near Vegas .
Last night was horrible
Maybe this is a sign ONE 4-lane outdated highway shouldn’t be the only connection between 2 metros totaling 20 million people
When the 8.5 mag earthquake happens, it's gonna be hell being trapped in SoCal
that can be an EV crash at any point now because there are so many on the road with ahole drivers these days.
All interstates need paved emergency median crossings to reroute traffic
Im POSITIVE that this story will give people a NEGATIVE perception of EV batteries.😮
0:21 how can you walk with those 20 inch heels? 🤣
What caused the truck to over turn?
Perhaps we need rotation travel, A-Z last names days for traveling. And big trucks and rigs need their own highway/freeway. And the governor of LA should encourage or suggest families w children to travel by plane??? And offer a discount? Families w children to travel certain days to avoid being stuck in the desert especially in the hot summer. The country and it's cities are over population and not enough roads / freeways. I am pretty sure Las Vegas would not mind for a limit on travelers / those who are moving in lol to have a limit. ??? Especially during these hot summers, winter can be harsh too.
another reason not to go full ev aka full restart
California is a disaster 😂😂😂
LFP batteries 🔋 = 👑
Ain't "Green" great?
did y'all account for the carbon footprint ?
including all of the gassers idling for hours stuck in this parking lot ???
That is so awful! If your car dies triple a isn’t coming…. such a weird and inconvenient thing to happen….
utter
foolishness.
in this intense red tape goes out the window quickly CHP
keep it movin'.
Girl, WHAT are you wearing????
4x4 monster trucks needed
WOW ITS SO GREEN I CAN SMELL IT HERE IN COLORADO
Reason #1000 NOT to buy an EV. It's hot, you are hopelessly stuck in traffic on a crowed highway, and you get to choose between shutting off your AC or running out of power.
You need to burn gasoline to keep your AC running in a gas car. So, you get to choose between shutting off your AC or running out of gas. Oh wait! My EV is so much more efficient than a gas car I can keep my AC running for two days before running out of power.
@@davidswan482 You'd best update your source of information. The hotter or colder it gets outside the sweet spot, the less efficient your batteries are, meaning you will be forced to shut down your heat or AC exactly when you need it most or face pulling over to the curb with no power. For example, at temperatures below 20℉ (-6.7℃), EVs can lose around 12% of their range, rising to 41% if heating is turned on inside the vehicle. The same goes for AC. EVs have significant limitations, however you choose to ignore them and make ridiculous claims. You do know we are laughing at you, right?
@@davidswan482 Ford just lost $1 BILLION dollars on their EVs because they are not practical for (most) applications, however you seem to know better. Polls of EV drivers show they won't buy another and wish they hadn't bought the one they have. I have to think you are just brainwashed and refuse to admit you got screwed to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars by the MSM and big government that you worship. Enjoy your "unlimited" range and AC on something less than a full charge, especially when those batteries get older. Oh, I'm sorry, you haven't noticed all your rechargable batteries fade away like Joe Biden after a few years?
Man am I glad I stayed my ass at home lmao
Take the invisible high speed railway to Vegas don't drive..
The newswoman at the TV station is wearing shoes that could be classified as stilts.
I was their 2 mules 🫏 🫏 and a covered wagon .
Do you mean mules left this comment?
Absolutely no reason to shut down the I-15. California dollars working for you!
We and my family Wes the traffic for 15 hours until the next morinb
all that flat land, and everyone continues to drive on the road.
This kind of things will get worse. Watch and see if more EV’s are on the road.
Happy now “environmentalists”?
Good watches have capacitors not batteries unfortunately God is for lithium miners to blame for California falling into the ocean 🙏.
Bless your pea sized brain. I dare you to show me a capacitor capable of holding the charge, current, and wattage required to drive a car.
You can't have a good car stereo system without a capacitor because of the power they draw
When California goes Yellowstone goes so we mine the fault lines at the salt n sea for lithium and subsidize electric cars.
No catastrophe goes to waste because they're all engineered so we grow marijuana indoors just to complain about power outages or fires created by them and dead firemen.
Everyone's equal unless its sports or singing and everyone cares the same with the God fucking Americans .
I think this was a I can do it cheaper load.
That load should have not fallen off the trailer.
Ive seen small self running generators on youtube that can be put in a trunk and ev cars wouldnt need the batteries so dumb with all the technology we have available and its not being used