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I wonder if anyone bothered to test some of this water runoff for dangerous chemicals… I’m no scientist, but generally the liquids inside batteries should stay inside the batteries whenever possible.

Though I guess normal car fires would have gasoline-tainted runoff anyway!

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Managing runoff is a factor in any vehicle fire, secondary to immediate protection of life, of course. Runoff is contained in binding, by digging ditches, etc. Contaminated runoff may then need to be removed by a specialised hazmat crew, depending on what’s in it and where is draining to.

Australian here, but I can’t imagine there’s much difference on this issue.

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