Flutterby™! : Kids book goes kaboom! (or at least burns)

Maybe lots of ewaste and lithium batteries in everything isn't such a good idea after all? WSOC TV 9 Charlotte: Children’s book sparks fire inside Burke County minivan, investigators say, with some interesting conflicting reporting:

“The world itself is moving to lithium batteries, which propose some of these troubles to the fire service,” Chief Craig said. “I don’t know if there is — other than trying to keep them cool — that there is any precautions.”

vs the statement from Cottage Door Press:

“Our electronic children’s books, which have sold millions of units without incident, use alkaline batteries, not lithium-ion batteries. We are relieved that no one was injured and are working closely with local officials and experts to determine the cause of this incident.”

Also interesting is the way that news propagates, WSB TV 2 Atlanta: Child’s book starts fire in mom’s minivan basically looks like a rewrite of the WSOC story. Which, yeah, news orgs do their "reporting" by rewriting other news orgs work all of the time, but/and there's gotta be a better way.