David Berger plugged in an electric scooter to charge it in his apartment in Salzburg. Moments later the vehicle exploded.
“I still have pain, but the tablets are making up for it.” David Berger’s left leg is bandaged, as is his right knee. The 24-year-old initially needs crutches to walk. “And yet I am happy that everything went so smoothly,” he breathes.
What happened? On Thursday, an e-scooter suddenly caught fire in his apartment in Salzburg-Taxham – the “Krone” reported.
Berger was charging the vehicle’s battery when he suddenly heard a loud bang. “I immediately unplugged the scooter and it started smoking,” says Berger. Then everything happened very quickly: the scooter caught fire within seconds. “There was a flash of flame and a small explosion!”
The 24-year-old now had only one thought. He really wanted to keep his entire apartment from burning down. “At first I wanted to get a fire extinguisher from the hallway, but that would have taken far too long,” the Salzburg resident emphasizes.
Thrown from the balcony into the courtyard
Berger acted with presence of mind, opened the balcony door and threw the burning scooter from the fourth floor into the courtyard of the apartment building. “Of course I made sure beforehand that there was no one downstairs,” he laughs. During his daring action, the 24-year-old suffered burns to his legs and a finger.
Charging scooters outside? “Impossible for me”
The fire brigade was able to extinguish the e-scooter. “It was a branded device and almost new. Unbelievable,” says Berger angrily. He now wants to hold the production company liable. In any case, he himself is not aware of any guilt: “Our house has almost 200 apartments. I can’t charge the scooter outside, that’s just not possible.”
Source: Krone
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