Line Safety Officer driving into ICP from the fire noticed smoke coming from his KNG/BK portable radio charger which he had plugged into a power port in his rental pick up truck. There was no portable radio or battery in the charger. He threw the charger out of the vehicle, stopped, and when the charger had cooled sufficiently picked up the charger and continued into our ICP and reported the event to me.
The charger was taken to Communications for evaluation. Commo tech's written evaluation is available on request.
I currently have the charger and if necessary will ship it for further inspection/evaluation. |