It’s most typical for fires to start when the battery is being charged. For it to catch fire just sitting there either means it was damaged or was some shoddy, not-certified, battery that shouldn’t have been sold in Canada.
This could have ended up much worse.
So frustrating. It’s the cheap crap that’s bursting into flames. So of we are going to spend millions on these rules, have consumers pay more for certified products, yet still have these junk batteries floating around in public, are we really getting ahead?