{"id":88026,"date":"2023-08-18T18:58:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=88026"},"modified":"2023-08-18T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:01:01","slug":"lithium-ion-battery-safety-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/lithium-ion-battery-safety-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium-ion battery safety tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2077\/Battery-and-Scooter-Safety.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-2.51.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88031\" width=\"556\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-2.51.10-PM.png 322w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-18-at-2.51.10-PM-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>August 18, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In preparation for students returning to campus, the Department of Public Safety Office of Fire and Life Safety reminds you of some lithium battery and e-bike &amp; scooter battery safety tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries supply power to many kinds of devices including smartphones, laptops, e-scooters and e-bikes, e-cigarettes, smoke alarms, toys, and even cars. If not used correctly, or if damaged, these batteries can catch on fire or explode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2077\/Battery-and-Scooter-Safety.pdf\">download the two-page fact sheet<\/a> at the right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more fire safety tips, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/fire\/fire-safety-tips\/\">Office of Fire and Life Safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, 2023 In preparation for students returning to campus, the Department of Public Safety Office of Fire and Life Safety reminds you of some lithium battery and e-bike &amp; scooter battery safety tips. Lithium-ion batteries supply power to many kinds of devices including smartphones, laptops, e-scooters and e-bikes, e-cigarettes, smoke alarms, toys, and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-88026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911±¬ΑΟ-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88026"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88034,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88026\/revisions\/88034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}