William Gallagher
Apple Braehead in Scotland, and the surrounding shopping center, were evacuated as fire crews attended an incident with a "smoking battery."
The Apple Store is in Glasgow at the Braehead Shopping Center, where the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) was called to the scene at 4.22 pm local time on February 8, 2022.
According to Glasgow Times, four fire engines were sent. It's a standard response to a possible fire at a large shopping center, but ultimately the issue was contained quickly.
Reportedly, alarms had been set off by a smoking battery. Fire crews used a sand bucket to extinguish the device.
It's not know what battery it was, or how the incident occurred.
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Good to see that they take 'No Smoking' so seriously these days. :)
I just can’t get past the image of 4 fire trucks and 10-20 fire fighters showing up, rushing into the store and putting a phone in a bucket of sand!
First, I really think Apple needs to update the photos of their stores online... the one here is showing iPad 2! That's eleven years ago!
Second, in the US for certain, the Genius repair rooms have buckets of sand for exactly this purpose. I would imagine that's the same in all stores regardless of country. Also, the stores have thick steel cabinets to hold items that have a risk of a battery "thermal event." I wonder if this "event" was over before the fire brigade actually got there.