Recent fires spark concern over Lithium Battery Storage facilities NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

Some county leaders are considering a moratorium after a couple of fires have broken out at battery storage facilities across the county. The most recent one happened Thursday in Escondido, evacuating hundreds of residents and businesses.

Nancy Jennings lives in Escondido, just a few miles from the SDG&E Lithium-Ion Battery Facility that caught fire. She was forced out of her home Thursday due to a power outage.

She said an SDG&E representative told her extreme heat caused the power to go out.

“When I had called SDC and spoke to their representative, she had checked with, her people there, and what they told her was that the fire had damaged SDC is equipment and that was why the outage and why it took so long to repair, because it was over 12 hours,” Jennings said.

SDG&E has not confirmed a connection between the fire and the power outage at Nancy’s …