{"id":741318,"date":"2026-06-16T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/741318\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:24:11","slug":"lithium-ion-batteries-blamed-for-landfill-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/741318\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium-Ion Batteries Blamed for Landfill Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/st-johns-regional-fire-department.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Lithium-Ion Batteries Blamed for Landfill Fires\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The St. John\u2019s Regional Fire Department believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/household-products\/battery-safety\/lithium-ion.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a> are to blame for two recent fires at the Robin Hood Bay waste management facility.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent fire occurred on Sunday, sending thick smoke over a wide area of the capital city\u2019s east end.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief of Operations Paul Chaytor says throwing lithium ion batteries in the trash often leads to fires.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Once in a landfill, they can be damaged by heavy equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce lithium ion is exposed to the air, (the batteries) actually catch on fire, or even explode, and they won\u2019t stop catching on fire and exploding until\u2026the lithium itself is depleted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says\u00a0the batteries\u00a0need to be disposed of correctly by dropping them off at battery collection sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The St. John\u2019s Regional Fire Department believes lithium-ion batteries are to blame for two recent fires at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-741318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}