A South Florida homeowner heard clicking from a thrifted wheelchair after moving it outside, and the lithium battery exploded, narrowly avoiding a house fire.

Thrift‑store wheelchair's lithium battery explodes in Hollywood driveway; homeowner safe. Officials urge charger caution.

A quick-thinking homeowner avoided disaster when she took her electric wheelchair out to her driveway in Hollywood, Florida, where it exploded in a ball of flames in the early hours of Sunday, April

All occupants had evacuated the home prior to firefighters' arrival.

An e-bike battery explosion ignited a fire at a Falmouth home Wednesday morning, displacing a family , fire officials said. There were no injuries and a guinea pig was rescued from the second floor, Falmouth fire said in a statement.

A bike battery exploded in an attached garage of a Club Valley Drive Falmouth home, igniting a fire in the home's main structure on Wednesday. The explosion came after an e-bike lithium-ion battery apparently failed,

Exploding e-bike and e-scooter batteries emitting "jet-like flames" and toxic fumes pose an increasingly lethal danger, a probe after a series of fire deaths has heard. An inquiry into the dangers of lithium-ion batteries is under way before NSW coroner ...

A mobile phone battery exploded inside a passenger’s bag during baggage screening at Hyderabad airport, causing brief panic. No injuries were reported, and security teams quickly controlled the situation.