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See a garbage truck’s CNG cylinders explode after lithium-ion battery fire

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Firefighters saw flames shooting five feet into the air out the back of garbage truck in Chicago suburb.

Truck was powered by compressed natural gas stored in five carbon-fiber-wrapped cylinders on the roof.

Pressure relief devices should have opened when CNG tanks reached temperature between 212 and 220 Fahrenheit (100140 Celsius).

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68

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63

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69

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semi-formal

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English

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52

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short-lived

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