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03/21/2016
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Images show equipment on fire in SP apartment.
Skate was carrying in the making when he began to burn.
An electric skateboard, which is a worldwide success and is already the feet of Brazilians, can be a hazard. explosion of cases and fire equipment are recorded with increasing frequency.
A camera in an apartment in the south of São Paulo registered frightening images. Two friends of 13 years watched television in one of the property's rooms. In another room, a kind of electric skateboard was being loaded into the outlet.
The boys began to feel a strong smell of burning. Then, they saw smoke. One of the boys picked up the skateboard and ran out of the apartment. So put down the toy in the first explosion. Another stronger happens in the boy flees the stairs. The skate went on fire in a series of explosions. Then the boy's mother ran down and the boy, desperate, threw a bucket of water on a skateboard on fire, which did not end the fire. There were more explosions. The boy's mother also played water. The boy came back again with another bucket, and smoke engulfed the house.
"The boy had a small burn on the hand. It was just warm the equipment in his hand. After we saw the video, we saw it was serious. It could have blown it in his hand or gone to the face, "says Camila Massini.
The equipment was melted. It is more common than you think. On the internet there are dozens of electric skateboards on fire videos. But not even need to be carrying the outlet. In Brazil and the United States, the toy are prohibited from entering the aircraft.
Not a cheap equipment. The price ranges between R $ 1.2000 and R $ 4,000. The cheapest are almost always fake, made in China, without any concern for safety.
"It's a battery quality problem. If the temperature reaches a very high value, and it has everything in there to get into a violent combustion. You have a hell of a battery. Out fire by all over the place, "says Roberto Avillez, an engineering professor at PUC / RJ.
"If the product is a generic box, where you enter a site and do not think anything at all about that product, you can be sure that this product is a parallel product," says Higor Guedes, sales manager.
This is the case of the skateboard that caught fire in the apartment. These devices often have no information about the manufacturer. If the skate catch fire, can not play water especially if you are plugged in. A fire extinguisher should be used and the fire department should be called.
Source: Hour 1
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