No injuries after fire at Halifax e-bike store: Halifax Fire

An e-bike store on Quinpool Road in Halifax caught fire on Tuesday morning.

A Halifax e-bike store was the scene of a fire Tuesday morning.

Halifax Fire crews say they responded to “BMG E-Bikes” after receiving an automatic alarm around 9 a.m.

When crews arrived, they found the store engulfed in smoke, but were still able to successfully evacuate everyone from the building and extinguish the fire.

Firefighters said they had to take special precautions to remove the bike batteries which were damaged in the fire.

“We removed a couple of the batteries and the e-bikes that were affected by the fire, so what we do there in that case is we take the batteries and we put them in what we call an overpack drum which makes them safe so that they can be removed by a proper removal company,” said Halifax Fire Department operations division district chief, Brad Connors, in an interview with CTV Tuesday.

Halifax Fire said the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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