VIDEO/PHOTOS: At least nine fire departments were called in to do the โlabor-intensiveโ work of putting out a fire at a lithium-ion battery warehouse in Holland Wednesday. The fire broke out around 1 p.m. on S. Waverly Road south of E. 32nd Street.
Holland Fire Marshal Bret Groendyke said the first crew to arrive found stacked pallets of batteries burning. Groendyke said the buildingโs fire suppression system had kicked in, keeping the fire from spreading. โWith the type of fire that you have, itโs very, very difficult, if not impossible to extinguish it,โ he said. โSo the water thatโs flowing in there is to keep the fire from spreading to the other items around it. The suppression system operated exactly like it needed to operate and it controlled and contained the fire in place, limited the amount of spread. But then it becomes very labor intensive to move each of those burning items out of that building. And thatโs why you โฆ see the response thatโs out here right now.โ
