Fire Brigade Warns of Potential Risks of Overnight Charging as E-Bike Blamed for 3 Deaths

Blaze in Cambridge follows four deaths in New York fire on June 20

London Fire Brigade in Camden, London, on Dec. 17, 2022. Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Fire brigade chiefs are warning people of the danger posed by lithium ion batteries after a fire—which has been blamed on an e-bike—killed a woman and two young children.

Gemma Germeney, 31, died in the fire in Cambridge in the early hours of Friday and her children, Lilly Peden, 8, and Oliver Peden, 4, were taken to hospital where they both later died.