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Victoria Hutchinson

Victoria Hutchinson

Victoria Hutchison is Chief Operations Officer at Energy Safety Response Group (ESRG) and formerly Senior Research Project Manager at NFPA's Fire Protection Research Foundation, specializing in lithium-ion battery and EV fire safety research.

Sep 22, 2026

17:42
How are they figuring this out on the fly without the prescriptive codes? What are some of the strategies that they're using?
17:49
I think a lot of it is prescriptive.
17:52
You can go back to fundamentals in the building code on types of facilities where a sprinkler system may be required and turn to NFPA 13 for... for some basic categories of where things fall and what kind of levels of protection, what kind of, you know, detection may be needed.
18:12
The concern is the gap between, you know, where that would traditionally be classified versus taking the battery hazards into understanding of the hazards.
18:24
So that's mainly where the gap currently lies.
18:27
You can take in performance-based assessments.
18:31
One of the things that we push in the report or the approach that we took to it was doing a hazard mitigation analysis.
21:51
Are we seeing bus depots being retrofitted to accommodate these new buses? Do we have a sense of that?

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