A truck fire involving lithium-ion batteries led to a three-hour evacuation in a section of Columbus Thursday morning.
Smoke was showing from the trailer where 5,900 pounds of batteries were located. Pressure was detected as well.
Firefighters ordered everyone within a mile radius to leave worried that the batteries could burn rapidly and explode, WBNS reported.
When a robot from the Columbus FIre Department's bomb squad opened the trailer doors, the oxygen ignited a fire which resulted in thick dark smoke billowing into the sky.
Firefighters worked into the afternoon to extinguish the fire.
There were no injuries.