{"id":56912,"date":"2026-07-18T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cardiff-bin-lorry-fire-likely-caused-by-e-bike-batteries-council-says\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:37:20","slug":"cardiff-bin-lorry-fire-likely-caused-by-e-bike-batteries-council-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cardiff-bin-lorry-fire-likely-caused-by-e-bike-batteries-council-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff bin lorry fire likely caused by e-bike batteries, council says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Two refuse wagons have been damaged by fires caused by hazardous materials put out with household rubbish, said Cardiff Council.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters were called to tackle the latest fire in a bin lorry in the capital, with bike batteries deemed to have been the likely cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority is warning people not to put batteries, gas canisters, vapes or other such items in their general waste following the second blaze in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Incorrect disposal puts our crews, residents and the public at risk,&#8221; it said. &#8220;Please use the appropriate recycling and disposal facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62v5je9lz4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two refuse wagons have been damaged by fires caused by hazardous materials put out with household rubbish, said Cardiff Council. Firefighters were called to tackle the latest fire in a bin lorry in the capital, with bike batteries deemed to have been the likely cause. The authority is warning people not to put batteries, gas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[3342,1681,1251,2910,1683,5174,666,3976],"class_list":["post-56912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-batteries","tag-bin","tag-cardiff","tag-caused","tag-council","tag-ebike","tag-fire","tag-lorry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56914,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56912\/revisions\/56914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}