Programme FIVE 2025

08:30 Registration

09:00 Opening Ceremony

Franz Evegren, Director Fire Safe Transport, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Bergthora Thorkelsdottir, Director general, Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration

09:30 Keynote Session

Risk Management and batteries - a look at the ecosystem
Christina F. Francis
Tesla, Inc. 

10:00 EV Guidelines

Operational guide for Rescue operation involving lithium-ion batteries
Per-Ola Malmquist, Marcus Vilhelmsson
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), Sweden

Safety guidelines for battery swap station
Nils Rosmuller, Ben Riemersma and Tom Hessels
Netherlands Institute for Public Safety, The Netherlands

10:40 Coffee Break

11:20 Battery Fires

Can we use global data to identify and pre-empt electric vehicle battery fires caused by manufacturing faults?
Emma Sutcliffe, Daniel Fish
EV FireSafe, Australia

Experimental investigation of fires with multiple electric vehicle (BEV) batteries in the storage situation
Justus Frenz¹, Jochen Zehfuß¹, Björn Maiworm², Kristina Steinbauer², Christian Knaust^3
1TU Braunschweig – iBMB, Germany
²Landeshauptstadt München - Branddirektion, Germany
³Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung (BAM), Germany

The effect of different trigger methods on the thermal runaway propagation in large-format lithium-ion battery modules
Christoph Meraner
RISE Fire Research, Norway

12:20 Lunch

13:40 Safety of Alternative Fuels

Solid State Batteries: are current safety-related regulations adapted?
Arnaud Bordes, Amandine Lecocq, Caroline Gaya, Jérôme Lesage, Clément Rabette, Thierry Delbaere and Guy Marlair
The French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (Ineris), France

Electric shock from a burning or crashed vehicle – a comprehensive risk assessment
Vesa Linja-aho
Independent Electrical Safety Professional, Finland

Hydrogen Storage System for Vehicles
S. Sengupta¹, H. Singh¹, S. Ilinzeer², K. Kohl², V. Gettwert², S. Knapp², A. Koleczko², A. Keßler², and C.-C. Höhne^2
1LINAMAR, Canada
²Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Germany

14:40 Coffee Break

15:20 EV Fire Suppression

Analysis of EV Firefighting Tactics and the Impacts on Stranded Energy: Full-scale Test Results
Victoria Hutchison Lutz
Fire Protection Research Foundation, USA

Performance Evaluation of Fire Suppression Method for Electric Vehicles through Full-Scale Fire Experiments
Jongjin Jeong¹, Kyewon Park¹, Yichul Shin¹, Sungho Hong¹, Jaeman Park^2
1Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea, Republic of Korea
²Ankug Engineering, Republic of Korea

Safety evaluation of extinguishing water after a lithium battery fire in terms of ecotoxicity and physicochemical parameters
Lucie Pokorná-Krayzelova¹, Hana Kujalová¹, Jan Bindzar¹, Lucia Tajnaiová¹, Klára Anna Mocová¹, Jana Kafroňová¹, Radek Vurm¹, Jakub Pilař¹, Kryštof Řehák¹, Barbora Štěpánová², Petra Najmanová², Jan Karl³, Romana Friedrichová³, Milan Růžička³, Marek Martinec^1
1University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic
²Dekonta a.s., Czech Republic
³Ministry of the Interior - General Directorate of the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic

16:20 Poster Session (pitch presentations)

17:00 Cocktail Reception

08:30 Registration

08:50 Welcome day 2

09:00 Keynote Session

Electric vehicle fire safety and the impact on parking regulations
Carlo Mol
VITO/EnergyVille

09:30 Car Park Fires

Analysis in relation to English and French regulations of London Luton Airport’s Terminal 2 parking lot fire on Tuesday October 10, 2023
Jérémie GIRARD, Olivier LECOQ-JAMMES, Pascal VAN HULLE, Xavier DUPONCHEL, Daniel JOYEUX, Virginie DREAN
Efectis France, France

Risk mitigation toolbox for fire safety of modern carparks
Sigurjon Ingolfsson¹, Peter Dingemans², Nigel Williams², Tom Vandeweghe², Tom Antonissen^2
1Arup
²EPA

Influence of car park ceiling height on water-based suppression system performance in vehicle fires
Bogdan Racięga¹, Jakub Bielawski², Wojciech Węgrzyński^2
1Baltic Fire Laboratory, Poland
²Building Research Institute, Poland

10:30 Coffee Break

11:10 Fire Development

Application of design fire based on statistical analysis to predict the severity of electric and internal combustion engine vehicle fires
Mohd Zahirasri Mohd Tohir^1,2, César Martín-Gómez^1
1Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
²Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Vehicle Fires in a WUI-Type Scenario
Giovanni Di Cristina, Matthew Bundy, and Anthony Hamins
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Flammability Test Procedure Development for Motor Vehicle Interior Materials
Jason Huczek, Marc Janssens
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), USA

12:10 Lunch

13:20 Fire Incidents

The Use of Fire Testing in the Investigation and Conviction of a Serial Arsonist
Brian Grove, Jonathan Smith, David Tucholski
Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), USA

Documented vehicle fires in marine vehicle carriers from 2013 to 2023
Magnus Arvidson, Anna Karlsson
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden

Fire safety in the car recycling chain
Tom Hessels, Margrethe Kobes, Nils Rosmuller
Nederlands Instituut Publieke Veiligheid, The Netherlands

14:20 Concluding Remarks

14:30 Coffee break

14:40 Technical Visit (Vulcano Safari)

Joint technical visit together with ISTSS (starts in main hall)