LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Throughout Wednesday, smoke was still billowing into the sky from Townsite Solar, the site of a large fire Tuesday night.

The source of the fire was a lithium battery unit, keeping Boulder City Fire crews busy throughout the night Tuesday.

Boulder City Fire Chief Kenneth Morgan told FOX 5 that these types of fires are rare to see.

“It’s one of those things that you know around the country they’ve had fires and energy storage systems so we kind of know what’s going to happen,” Chief Morgan said.

“They’re kind of rare too at the same time because they’re so well monitored, so well taken care of that a fire in one’s kind of unusual. We do a lot of training preparation for it because we do have some fairly large facilities here with the energy storage batteries.”

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