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Battery-powered in Escondido
There are few substances, other than petroleum distillates, having more energy per mass or volume than Lithium. And local firefighters have no directly applicable protocol, have no formal training, and have no specialized equipment for a conflagration at this type of installation where Li batteries would have ignited. The local firefighters were not able to respond in any meaningful way to the transformer fire at the Escondido peaker plant (adjacent to the new hospital) during December 2010. They just watched it burn until they decided to ask the Camp Pendleton fire crews to help.— December 30, 2016 6:13 a.m.