[glassdoctor]

There are a ton of "incidents" involving lipos and fire. Some even non-rc related like cell phones and computers catching fire. Recently a UPS plane had to abort a flight due to a fire suspected to be lipo ignited.

It is still a rather rare occurence but it deserves some consideration. There are certain rules that should be followed to greatly reduce the risk of an "incident".

For example...
Monitor charging... don't put a lipo on the charger and go to bed or leave the house.
Monitor lipos for a while if you ever damage them in a crash etc...
Store them where they won't durn down the house IF they were to catch fire.

Just like having a smoke alarm in the house... odds are you will never need it but we all have them anyway.

Speaking of that, I have an extra smoke alarm near where I keep mine.

And general stuff like using proper lipo chargers, not over-discharging them, checking at least occasionally that the cells are balanced, strap them in good so they don't get damaged,....etc etc