New York City saw three e-bike battery fires in the past 24 hours

FDNY now requires all landlords to educate residents on e-bike battery safety

An e-delivery bike in New York
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Lithium-ion battery fires continue to wreak havoc on New York City as three fires spark in the past 24 hours alone, pushing the total of such fires past 200.

All residential and relating to e-mobility devices, the fires sprung up in a basement in the Kensington neighborhood; outside an apartment complex on the Upper East Side and one this morning in the Bronx

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