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> The fires in HSS in Germany were determined using web crawling for the year 2023 because no other data was available. All other probabilities were calculated using researched data. The results show a significantly lower probability of an HSS fire compared to a general house fire.

Seems legit.

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> the findings indicate that the probability of an HSS fire is very low (0.0049 %) and is 50 times lower than for a general house fire.

So for every 50 "normal" house fires, one extra will be due to HSS.

The bigger question is, what are the consequences of such fires? Looking at burning electric cars, that can't be put out, having burning batteries in an apartment building basement doesn't really seem that fun.

Battery fires are highly toxic. You’ll need to evacuate the area, and cleaning up afterwards might be fun.

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