Lyft bikes caught fire in Berkeley, San Jose before two reported in San Francisco

Lyft bikes caught fire in Berkeley, San Jose before two reported in San Francisco

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/02/lyft-bikes-caught-fire-in-berkeley-san-jose-before-two-in-san-francisco/

Lyft’s Wednesday move to pull all its black and pink electric bikes from the East Bay, San Francisco and San Jose came after flammable battery packs or vandalism caused at least four bikes to catch fire, two more than the company earlier acknowledged.

San Jose city officials are encouraged by the fact no one was injured when a bike caught fire there on Tuesday, said Colin Heyne, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation. Representatives from Lyft reached out to the city on Wednesday after two fires were reported in San Francisco over the past week, he said, and told them it would deactivate the e-bikes until it could remove them from its fleet.