I am going to add this. As to whether or not the lipo's started the fire, or something else did is purely speculation, but, what isnt speculation is that before, i didnt always take care of them the way i should have, and, even though i know no plan is completely foolproof, my plan this time around is to be way more cautious with them. Last time, i admit i was, at times, careless with them. For example, i would charge them the night before i planned on using them, then, just toss them loosely into a cardboard box in the living room, and, about the only time they even got near a bag was when they were being charged. I have also taken care to mark these with a date, since, the last ones, some of them were 3 to 4 years old, and i never really put much thought into them at all. I also take the time to inspect each one after every run, and make sure they are properly storage charged. The one thing i am sure of is that none of the ones we had showed any signs of puffing, but, a couple did have cases that were scratched and scuffed. I know the ammo can isnt a perfect solution, but, given our situation, it was the best i could come up for now, same with the bags. They were more to insulate the batteries from each other than anything else. If the lipo's were the cause, its a really expensive lesson to learn, which is why now, i take the time to tell as many people as i can about it, that way maybe someone who was like me and didnt know any better, will learn from our experiences, because, one thing we know for sure is that, even if the lipo's didnt start it, they definitely made it much worse, since, at the time, i had at least a dozen of them, all just thrown in a box together, and, the front half of the house, especially the living room and kitchen, the damage was much worse than the back half. When the house was being demolished, we did find a few things that survived, one of which was a plastic model of the General Lee from Dukes Of Hazzard, from the late 80's that was in the very back of the house, in a corner, inside another box, and, even though the outer box was damaged, the plastic that sealed the model box wasn't touched at all, and, the HDD's from my gaming computer still work, and, so do the cameras i use to film my RC stuff. I actually used one today on a tripod for the first time, just to see what happened, and it seemed to work perfectly, but, everything in the front half of the house was ash, and, it got so hot in the front half of the house, that it melted three aluminum bicycles that were on the porch into puddles. It got so hot in the front half of the house, that the nearly new metal shed that was just off the porch partly melted, so, the front half of the house, according to the fire inspector, had to be 1500 degrees or more, for there to be that much damage. The part that, after everything settled down, months later i was able to look back on in amazement was with the HDD's from my computer, the General Lee model, and, the key to my Durango. Our bed was maybe 5 feet from where the model was, and about the same distance from my Gaming computer, and that even though the springs were somewhat melted, the key to my Durango, which was literally right next to the bed, the plastic melted into a heart shape, but, the key was still functional to the point where i drove the Durango with that key for like 3 days after the fire, since, because it didnt have a chip in the key, and her Escape did, was the only thing that would start after everything settled down. Her son collects Hot Wheels, and Matchbox cars, and, even though the packages were damaged, more than 80 of his cars survived with absolutely no damage to the cars themselves, so, he had me help him make a shelf to put them all on in his room in the new house.
This is just a small sample of the Hot Wheels that survived:
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And, this was the front of the house after it was over:
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So, it still amazes me that anything survived.
