Poll: Has a phone, laptop, e-bike, or power tool ever gotten hot, swollen, or smoked on you?

# #FirePreventionWeek

# Behavioral Science

# Phone Charging

Overcoming the "it hasn't happened here" bias to get people to charge their phones safely

Joseph Porcelli

Poll question: Has a phone, laptop, e-bike, or power tool ever gotten hot, swollen, or smoked on you? Answer options: → Yes, and it scared me → Yes, but I brushed it off → No, never → Not sure, I've never really checked

Poll description: Lithium-ion battery fires are climbing nationally even though most of us have never seen one up close. [Fire Department Name] is tracking how many close calls have already happened in [Your Town], quietly, before this year's Fire Prevention Week wraps up.

Seed comments, post each separately after publishing: Comment 1: If you said yes, what were you charging or using when it happened? Comment 2: Do you check your device batteries for swelling or damage, or is that not really on your radar? Comment 3: Warning signs a lithium-ion battery is failing: https://www.firepreventionweek.org

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