Warwick, New York has now experienced two battery energy storage system fires in just over two years — one in 2023, and another on December 19, 2025, just days before Christmas.
H/T nbindo
Battery Storage Fire in Warwick, NY: A Repeat Incident
- Saturday, February 14, 2026
I would rather live next to munitions storage
than a large lithium battery array.
I was just talking with a member of my American Legion post who has two Tesla Powerwalls, and no one had ever told her about thermal runaway.
Make sure she updates her home insurance …just in case, if there’s a fire they could deny a claim as it was a significant material fact they needed to know about
I presume the insurance cost will go up too. They just love every excuse to jack up the price- though in this case it’s valid.
Even the rooftop Solar Panels will increase the insured cost AND THE County Property assessment. then the TAXES.
Just bad luck, never happen again….. will insurance rates be the eventual demise of this grid scale battery insanity?
Sooner or later, yes. Addled politicians will only be able to arms for so long.
Only if they put the full, true cost to the insurance company on the battery companies and not spread the cost to the rest of us.
Of the many toxic emissions from LiFePO batteries is the spectacularly toxic HF gas and Hydrofluoric Acid. Fluorine makes up approx. 2% by weight of these batteries. There is no known safe exposure level to these compounds, though, amazingly, OSHA lists acceptable daily exposure limits with little to no backing documentation for that level. Unfortunately, the firefighters who are tasked with regularly fighting…I mean…attending these conflagrations will be suffering in the future. Exposure to Lithium and HF will inevitably lead to future cancers and neurological maladies. I mention attending the fires, as there is no good way to fight them. Probably should expand the evacuation radius for these events. If I lived near one of these battery systems, I’d get a good lawyer. Mark my words, those asbestos mesothelioma advertisements will be superseded by Lithium battery fire ads in the very near future.
Well Mamdaniville plans on putting one I read about in Queens in an old substation near a lot of large apartment complexes and right across the river from lower Manhattan so like the Kung Flu MRNA jab experiment we will soon find out.
Putting a battery storage unit in New York City is about as stupid a thing as one can do.
New York politicians are rolling the dice! It may come up snake eyes!
Look at all the problems lying about the temperature record has caused! The Liars should be held accountable.
As stupid a thing as one can do?
Well, it competes with the election of their new mayor, doesn’t it?
28 Church ST. Warwick
Industrial/Warehouse/Office spaces
160 yards east of the center of the buildings
In 2022 there appears to be vegetation-removal
where now there are four units, about 50 ft long
Just try to sell now, just you try! You, you … Staten Islander.
– says the wicked witch of New York State..
Second fire in months and that is just the start. The summer should be fun.
The humming is likely due to inverters and transformers, charging and discharging batteries.
That will not stop until the battery facility is dead and gone.
Your tax dollars paid for this you know and you have the very short end of the stick.
Were the batteries made in China?
Almost certain
And the pollution during their making would be horrendously filthy.
But its in China, so it doesn’t matter… right !!
The lithium battery fires are lethal to both the firefighters and the community. they release hydrogen cyanide. pregnant women and children can carry the poison form for the lives.
Windmills and Industrial Solar are very bad ideas, but battery storage is the worst, and most dangerous idea.
a trifecta!
Filthiest, most environmentally destructive form of electricity on the planet.
These battery installations are double – plus Stupid, since they are only needed to back up the Retardables.
Proper Newspeak would be double plus unsmart.
The horror. The horror.
Now if we could only make Governors such as Polis in Colorado have an idea how much more dangerous these fire are than CO2 being added to the atmosphere, we could make some progress.
However, Governors such as Polis are too busy sucking up to taking money from Micheal Bloomberg and others that they don’t know how to listen to the taxpayers.
Fossil fuel and nuclear don’t require batteries.
Saw this last week.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/29/the-unreported-story-of-grid-scale-battery-fires/