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Continuing Education (CE) Courses - The Lithium-Ion Revolution - Warrensburg FD; 1/26/2025

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Brief Description: Class Vendor: This class is available for contracted delivery from MUFRTI. Contracted Price: $2000.

Full Description: Class Vendor: This class is available for contracted delivery from MU Fire Rescue Training Institute - MUFRTI. Contracted Price: $2000.

Newer electric vehicles are powered by battery packs generating enough power to power the average American household for about three days. This workshop will focus on building tools for the street smart attentive First Responder. What, where and how these batteries are used and what to do when they fail. This presentation is filled with actual fire scene video, protocol breaches and close call firsthand accounts of emergencies that went wrong. Lithium-ION batteries are everywhere.

Course Objectives: Describe the construction of lithium-ion cells and identify the unique characteristics of lithium-ion batteries.
List the reasons lithium-ion batteries fail and explain the process of thermal runaway.
Describe the fire and explosion hazards resulting from thermal runaway propagation in lithium-ion batteries.
Develop strategies to reduce the risk associated with thermal runaway, including fire and explosion hazards

Student Pre-requisites: none

Training Location: Warrensburg Fire Department Station #1
102 South Holden Street
Warrensburg, MO 64093

Resources Required: Host agency provides the following: Classroom with computer and data projector access

Student provides the following: none

Vendor provides the following: none