An Electric Scooter on Fire Lead to the Evacuation of the Dropbox Headquarters

Just recently, Dropbox evacuated its SF headquarters at 333 Brannan Street because of an electric scooter that caught fire on the fifth floor of the building. The San Francisco Fire Department has extinguished the fire, and there were no victims.

A photo provided by Dropbox associate creative director Davy Rudolph surprises the scooter known as the Tianrun R3 in flames.

My office was evacuated today because an electric scooter exploded and caught fire. Seriously living in an episode of Silicon Valley over here. pic.twitter.com/cX2iVvejtf

— Davy Rudolph (@davyr) August 14, 2019

This version is sold by RocketX, but we have no info about the company from where it was purchased. However, the scooter was worth only $250, and the incident is no surprise, as hoverboards have been exploding on several occasions, mostly because of their large, combustible lithium-ion batteries.

On this note, Dropbox’s statement shows the company was not really affected by the incident, it was just a casual episode on Silicone Valley:

“We experienced a small fire at 333 Brannan yesterday afternoon. It was quickly put out, no injuries have been reported, and everyone was able to evacuate safely. We’re thankful to the SFFD for their swift response.“

everyone in tech jokes about how their lives feel like an ep of Silicon Valley but yesterday dropbox had to evacuate bc an electric scooter exploded in our office and it was "so hot" outside (80 degrees) that people were instacarting us emergency la croix

— hilary (@yourgirlhils) August 15, 2019