Massive Suspected E-scooter Blaze

[Southerner]

Gosport, Hampshire (cue ‘improvements’ jokes…)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c888xqnldp4o.a...

Eight homes ablaze, Fire Service saying likely an e-scooter on charge overnight.

Sodding things just need banning now, surely?

Edited by Southerner on Thursday 20th June 22:41

[Gareth79]

No, it needs Border Force having sufficient funding to be able to inspect all imported items for relevant safety certifications, as is done in most other countries. This will cover everything from children's toys painted with lead, counterfeit curling tongs which burst into flames, to items with large lithium batteries like this.

Additionally Trading Standards need their budgets bringing back to what they were, so that people spotting these sorts of things for sale can actually report them. It's currently almost impossible to do so.

[S100HP]

The ironic thing is, the fire uncovered a cannabis farm in the loft

[Silvanus]

S100HP said:

The ironic thing is, the fire uncovered a cannabis farm in the loft

Imagine being downwind of that

[ChocolateFrog]

What needs banning is all the cheap unchecked, unregulated crap that comes in from the Far East

It's very hard to set a genuine battery pack on fire because they have decent protection built in.

[Mojooo]

Gareth79 said:

No, it needs Border Force having sufficient funding to be able to inspect all imported items for relevant safety certifications, as is done in most other countries. This will cover everything from children's toys painted with lead, counterfeit curling tongs which burst into flames, to items with large lithium batteries like this.

Additionally Trading Standards need their budgets bringing back to what they were, so that people spotting these sorts of things for sale can actually report them. It's currently almost impossible to do so.

A friend of mine works in Trading Standards checking goods that comes in via the ports - they have 3 or 4 people working on it full time - I cant remember exactly what percentage of goods it is they check but its a very small per cent of 1 per cent.

[Oliver Hardy]

Gareth79 said:

No, it needs Border Force having sufficient funding to be able to inspect all imported items for relevant safety certifications, as is done in most other countries. This will cover everything from children's toys painted with lead, counterfeit curling tongs which burst into flames, to items with large lithium batteries like this.

Additionally Trading Standards need their budgets bringing back to what they were, so that people spotting these sorts of things for sale can actually report them. It's currently almost impossible to do so.

That would cause some back log, be impossible to check each one?