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The City Council on Monday discussed a bill to prohibit the re-sale of lithium-ion batteries, among other measures proposed in the wake of deadly fires blamed on such batteries.
The city has no answers yet about when the tap water at the Jacob Riis Houses will be safe to use again, how the arsenic got into it, or even why they decided to test for it.
Giovanni Molina, speaking to the Daily News from his hospital bed Tuesday, echoed a neighbor’s claims that a balky front-door lock trapped his mom inside their NYCHA apartment after an exploding e-bike battery sent his family’s world up in flames last Thursday.
Firefighters arrived to find residents pressed against the windows on the fourth floor of the 14-story Jacob Riis Houses around 7 a.m., with 180 firefighters bringing the fire under control after about an hour, said Assistant FDNY Chief Michael Ajello.