Two train cars carrying lithium-ion batteries caught fire in Marysville Sunday was not as hazardous as originally thought.
The 72 pounds of the batteries were among the cargo listed on the manifest. .
Sutter County Fire Battalion Chief Richard Epperson told CBS it was a very long night of fighting the fire.
"When the firefighters opened up the door to fight the fire, they saw lithium batteries,"
They initially had to treat it like the boxes were loaded to the brim with the extremely hazardous lithium-ion.
"That ended up not being the case after looking at the manifest," Sutter County Emergency Operations Manager Zachary Hamill said.
"If those would have been Tesla or big batteries like that, they probably would have taken the crane and took out the trees around here to create a barrier and let it burn for a month," Epperson said.
Firefighters cut holes in the top of the train cars, dousing the flames with 40,000 gallons of water to put it out.
Last month, a lithium-ion battery blaze that occurred when a Tesla semi-truck crashed caused big dangers for Sacramento Metro Fire.
"We can't apply water necessarily directly to the batteries to stop them from burning," said Captain Daniel Hoy with Sac Metro Fire.
