The fire drills are important not only for practicing and preparing people for the worst but also for trying out or inspecting the equipment; Are the fire hose valves working? Fire extinguishers sufficiently charged? Fire alarms working? Exit doors working? We once had a fire in a factory and learned that a few of the fire extinguishers are inadequately loaded.

 

We do have fire drills in the office but if there is a fire no one is going to follow it.

 

I'm trying to learn about LiPo battery pack safety and was wondering if anyone could head me in the direction of some good sources of information.

In particular I'm trying to learn enough to safely re-build and extend a laptop's 6-cell (3S2P) pack, but hopefully to extend it to a higher number of cells (eg 3S8P) as the extended run time (8+ hours) away from mains power would be particularly convenient for me and, as I understand it, the increased pack parallelism would be easier on the cells and extend their life-time somewhat.