Truck Fire Extinguisher Oreilly Auto Parts Car Battery Fire!?

Oreilly Auto Parts Car Battery Fire!? - truck fire extinguisher

Has anyone had problems with car batteries purchased Oreilly Auto Parts? Manufactured by East Penn. He bought a battery of 6 years 10 months, no problems until 9/11/07. He drove the car to work, parked, as usual, 30 minutes later, a colleague saw smoke from the chapel. Another colleague quickly extinguished the fire with a fire extinguisher chemical, save my truck and probably others parked nearby. Long story short, the company sent an investigator on fire drums, which led the cause of the fire was the battery, and East Penn has declared himself ready damages, which were moderate pay, all in all. A local mechanic also looked up and said he had "a lot" wrong Oreilly / East Penn Battery recent years, particularly with the model, which I bought with the cry goes completely dead shortly after the purchase, because the internal circuit He and arson investigators, the fire would have caused. It is a potentially fatal, and wondered if the others have had similar problems?