An electric vehicle fire in Schenectady earlier this week destroyed a car and damaged nearby buildings — prompting fire ...

A "turtle" was used to cool the battery, a device that hooks onto a fire hose and sprays water onto the undercarriage of the car to cool things down. Once that was in use, crews threw a fire blanket ...

Brooklyn Center Fire Department said the blanket was there to "control the vapors and smoke" rather than smother the fire.