Warehouse battery explosion causes 7-hour fire and injures 15
Warehouse battery explosion causes 7-hour fire and injures 15
2025-07-14
At around 5 on Monday morning, a fire broke out from a lithium battery warehouse in Kaohisung’s Linhai Industrial Park. The warehouse belongs to Molie Quantum Energy Corporation, which mainly makes lithium batteries for electric vehicles. The explosion occurred while semi-finished batteries were being charged for the first time. Fifteen were injured from the incident, including 12 workers at the warehouse who fell while escaping and three firefighters who got burned from explosions. The fire lasted seven hours before it went out.
The dashcam on a fire truck recorded this footage showing billows of thick smoke from the factory. Then, an explosion.
Another also captured the explosion as it took place. Officers from the nearby Siaogang Police Station were also present. They rushed to escape, but one officer fell. He then curled up to cover his face and torso, before the smoke enveloped him.
The warehouse is located in Kaohsiung’s Linhai Industrial Park, in Siaogang District and belongs to Molie Quantum Energy Corporation. Hundreds of night shift workers scurried out when the fire occurred at 5 in the morning. Twelve were left injured when they tripped while escaping.
Night shift staff
We helped each other out and held one another while escaping. I have some grazes and bruises. There was a small explosion inside there.
The company mainly manufactures lithium batteries for electric vehicles. To put out the fire, the city’s Fire Bureau sent out 46 fire trucks and almost 100 firefighters to the scene. Three firefighters went inside just as an explosion was about to occur. They got slight burns from the explosion and were sent to ER. After that, no other firefighters were sent inside the factory premises and water wasn’t being sprayed at the flames. The firefighters stayed on the sidelines on alert and deployed robots instead to extinguish the fire inside.
Wang Chih-ping
Kaohsiung City Fire Bureau
Due to the chemical properties of lithium batteries, there are chain reactions that keep occurring. So once you put out a flame it will keep reigniting. That’s also the trickiest part. Basically you use water to cool it down, and after the thermal energy is completely exhausted, the flame will then be completely extinguished for good.
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai also rushed to inspect the scene. He put on a filtering N95 mask before going inside the premises. When he returned, he brought with him a burned lithium battery.
Chen Chi-mai
Kaohsiung Mayor
It’s a battery that looks like this. There are a few scattered on the ground. They’re the source of the fire.
According to the company, the fire started at a warehouse for semi-finished lithium batteries. It added that the batteries were being charged for the first time, and they did not expect the explosion to happen. Fortunately, of the 15 injured due to the incident, 14 had already been discharged from the hospital. The only one left is a worker for the company’s contractor, who’s undergoing in-patient treatment for facial fractures.
The fire was only put out after seven hours. It’s the first time for a large-scale lithium battery fire to ever happen in Kaohsiung. The mayor has also issued an order to the company to halt all operations at the site of the incident and vowed to impose the strictest penalties.
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15人受傷! 高雄三元鋰電池廠爆炸 大火延燒7小時
2025-07-14
高雄小港區臨海工業區內的「三元能源」科技公司，清晨五點多發生大火，公司主要生產電動機車的鋰電池，疑似鋰電池半成品進行第一次充電而釀災。大量濃煙不斷從廠房竄出，還發生多次爆炸，導致三名消防人員輕微灼傷。大夜班員工倉皇逃生，過程中12人跌倒擦傷送醫。但由於鋰電池無法用水撲滅，消防局派出機器人灑水降溫，七個小時才燒完。
消防車行車紀錄器錄下，廠區冒出大量濃煙，突然間大爆炸，火舌噴出。
另一台車也拍到爆炸瞬間，第一時間到場的小港派出所員警，拔腿逃命卻跌倒，雙手雙腳擋住身軀，隨即被濃霧遮蔽。
高雄小港區臨海工業局內的「三元能源」科技公司，清晨五點多突然發生大火，好幾百名正在工作的大夜班員工倉皇逃生，有12人在慌亂中跌倒受傷送醫。
[[大夜班員工]]
“互相幫忙，有攙扶進來跟一起逃跑，就有一些擦挫傷。裡面有一些小爆炸”
公司主要生產電動機車的鋰電池，消防局出動46部水廂車和近百名消防人員前往搶救，三名消防員第一時間進入廠區內，被爆炸瞬間輕微灼傷，立即被送醫治療。之後消防局不再派人進入廠區，水廂車也沒有灑水，只是停在周邊警戒，改出動機器人，深入火場灌救。
[[高雄市消防局長 王志平]]
“鋰電池主要它化性的關係，它會不斷地一直變化，打熄了之後它還會再不斷地復燃，所以這是它最困難的地方。基本上就是用水把它降溫，然後讓它的熱能揮發完之後，火勢就可以熄滅掉了”
高雄市長陳其邁也立即趕到現場，戴起過濾式的n95口罩進入廠區了解情況，出來時手上拿著一顆燒焦的鋰電池。
[[高雄市長 陳其邁]]
“大概就是像類似這種電池，它有一些在地面上散落的部分，它帶來燃燒”
廠方表示，起火點是在電池半成品倉庫，正在進第一次的充電作業，沒想到發生爆炸。所幸15名受傷者中，14人都已經出院，只剩一名外包廠商臉部骨折住院觀察。
火勢持續了七個小時才燒完，高雄市第一次發生這麼大規模的鋰電池廠火警，陳其邁立即下令全面停工檢討，從嚴咎責。
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