Z.
A tragedy, and fortunately quite rare. There are a lot more fires with batteries that are not fatal.
a real or fake lithium battery can still be an accelerator once the fire starts - as suggested here the battery my not have been the original source, but even so may well have turned a small fire into something far more lethal.
If anything a cheap fake with smaller cells in is likely to bring less energy to the fire than a big one. However the risk of self ignition during overload is reduced in good designs by having internal current limiting protection and thermal trips -which are often omitted in cheaper designs, especially in vaping kits where there have been quite a few accidents - some hundred or so over the last 5 years resulting in hospital ..
And for comparison some US figures on vapes are here
Mike
Hi,
I'm sorry to hear and it's a big and sad disaster.
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