Winemaker shares devastation after lithium battery fire guts warehouse

Winemaker shares devastation after lithium battery fire guts warehouse

A winemaker on the cusp of retirement has told of the “gut-wrenching” moment his cellar door was nearly destroyed in a lithium battery fire. Rob Wignall, owner of Wignalls Wines in Albany on Western Australia’s southern coast, is about to close up shop after 45 years. He was at his house on the property when the blaze broke out on Thursday afternoon in a shed used as a warehouse for the winery. “The house rattled and there was a very, very large number of explosions comin...
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