Thermal Runaway: Leading Fire Command Under Pressure

Cutaway rendering of a containerized lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) with rear access doors open, showing stacked battery module racks inside — the type of installation crews encounter during thermal runaway incidents.

If you’ve spent any appreciable time in emergency services, you already know that thermal runaway is testing the fire service’s rhythm like nothing has in a generation. Tactics evolve, gear improves, and building construction shifts. However, the fundamentals of how we attack a problem tend to stay grounded in proven science. Every once in a […]