Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade meet food delivery riders working in the gig economy - to raise awareness about the risk of e-bike and e-scooter fires.
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00:00Local Council, I don't know why you're doing it here.
00:03I don't know why you're doing it here.
00:06Just awareness create for them.
00:08They're safely charged with them.
00:10They want to charge you.
00:12They want to charge you.
00:14They want to charge you.
00:16Online with a rep.
00:18Yeah? Online.
00:20Online, yeah.
00:24Fire your, right.
00:26Only use a charger for your battery.
00:28Yeah?
00:29Never charge your e-bike or scooter.
00:32Unintended.
00:33So always be there when it's charging.
00:35Don't charge it.
00:37Yeah, basically, as the gentleman said, just make sure you're charging outside.
00:41You're not converting a pedal bike into a e-bike as well.
00:45Don't you buy a e-bike?
00:46Yeah.
00:47You're charging your stairs or accessing egress.
00:48So if it does catch your light, you can get out.
00:49Yeah?
00:50If it does catch your light, don't try and fight the fire yourself.
00:53Just leave.
00:54Because with these batteries, they go up very quickly.
00:55They're very dangerous.
00:56They're very hot.
00:57They're very hot.
00:58They go up very quickly.
00:59They're very hot.
01:00They're very hot.
01:01They're very hot.
01:02They're not charging outside.
01:03You're not converting a pedal bike into a e-bike as well.
01:04You're charging your stairs or accessing egress.
01:09So if it does catch your light, you can get out.
01:13Yeah?
01:14If it does catch your light, don't try and fight the fire yourself.
01:16Just leave.
01:17Because with these batteries, they go up very quickly.
01:19They're very dangerous.
01:20They're very hot.
01:46They're very hot.
01:47They're very hot.
01:48I think they're very hot.
01:53How could they do that?
02:00What is that?
02:05If you got one of these, yes.
02:13One of these already? Okay, alright.
02:15It's not, it's too light to be regulated, it's not big enough, the engines are there.
02:21Yeah, but we've had some fatalities, haven't we?
02:24Oh yeah, but mostly from...