Hero off-duty FDNY firefighter rescues 4 pups from e-bike blaze
It was a rough rescue. An off-duty New York City firefighter rescued four French bulldogs from a burning Brooklyn apartment on Friday after an electric bike exploded just outside of him in a “huge fireball,” he told The Washington Post. “I said, ‘We’ve got to go right now,’” Smoke Eater Hero Joe Pendergast, 33, told […]
Scantily-clad motorist sporting leather lingerie charged in drunken e-bike crash
A woman wearing what appeared to be leather lingerie has been charged with drink-driving after colliding with an electric bike in Sydney’s Moorpark overnight. Emergency services were called to South Dowling Street in Sydney’s east at 3.45am after a Subaru sedan collided with an e-bike near the intersection of light rail and Devonshire Street. Emergency […]
Watch how an e-bike battery starts an inferno in an NYC store
A video posted by the FDNY shockingly reveals how a lithium-ion battery that was being charged at an electric bike shop in Queens this month caused a violent fire. The video, taken from the King Electronic Hub in Richmond Hill, shows a charging lithium-ion battery surrounded by scooters and boxes emitting dark gray smoke, followed […]