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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the banned-on-airlines-in-3..2..1 dept.

From the BBC:

Three Apple employees have been treated for minor injuries after an iPad battery reportedly exploded in an Amsterdam shop.

The three staff are believed to have breathed vapours released when the battery caught fire.

The incident, on 19 August, led to the shop in Amsterdam's Leidseplein being evacuated and closed.

Firefighters were called and they dealt with the iPad and made sure the shop was properly aired.

The shop has now re-opened.

Amsterdam's fire brigade tweeted that it had attended the incident and three people had been treated for breathing problems.

A Dutch media site said staff in the store had initially dealt with the fuming iPad by putting it in a sand-filled fire bucket.

This reportedly quelled the fire but not before some of the potentially harmful irritants had been released.

Apple news site 9to5mac said it had seen more incidents of similar faults since the electronics company had started its iPhone battery replacement programme.


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  • (Score: 2) by SparkyGSX on Wednesday August 22 2018, @07:04AM (2 children)

    by SparkyGSX (4041) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @07:04AM (#724578)

    I'm slightly surprised they had a sand-filled bucket at hand; it certainly is a good idea, and shows they were prepared for such an occasion.

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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Wednesday August 22 2018, @07:21AM

    by zocalo (302) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @07:21AM (#724580)
    +1 I'd have expected them to have realised they have a lot of electrical appliances so they'd need to only have fire extinguishers suitable for electrical fires on the shop floor to prevent mix-ups, but a bucket of sand is a much neater and simpler to clean up solution for things like this that would be easy to overlook, so kudos to whoever thought of it.
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @09:31AM (#724589)

    maybe this wasn't the first battery problem, just the first one to be publically reported.