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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Luca Ittimani

Lithium battery fire on truck shuts down Hume Highway in NSW due to health risk

Truck with smoke bellowing onto a highway
Firefighters cut off public access for 700m around the blaze due to the risk of a vapour cloud. Photograph: supplied/NSW Rural Fire Service

A truck carrying 15 tonnes of lithium ion batteries has caught alight and closed traffic on a major New South Wales highway, with disruptions expected to last for days.

The two-trailer truck was carrying about 50 batteries weighing 300kg each in its B-trailer, Fire and Rescue NSW said.

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