NEW YORK — A faulty lithium-ion battery sparked a raging fire inside a Brooklyn home early Tuesday that critically injured a woman living inside, FDNY officials said.
Firefighters putting out the blaze inside a home on Goodwin Place near Greene Avenue in Bushwick found 50 lithium-ion batteries inside one apartment, which the tenant had transformed into an off-the-books battery repair shop, Chief Fire Marshal Daniel Flynn said.
It was not immediately clear how many batteries caught fire, but the blaze was so intense that the building’s working smoke detectors and sprinkler systems were absolutely no help, he said.
