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I'm not buying the lithium battery theory. It may be the ignition source as opposed to say the stove ignitor but there was some sort of flammable gas liquid that caused two escape routes to be blocked.
NTSB investigator just stated she was on the sister ship that was very similar to the Conception. The escape hatch was at above a berth at the aft end of the berthing quarters. The layout of the berthing quarters shows three bunks end to end. If those bunks were six feet in length that is 18 feet. The stair case that appears about 18" wide and a table of some sort we will say is also 18" wide. that is roughly 21'-6" from the stair case to the escape hatch.
I don't buy that a Lithium battery starts a fire that spreads twenty-one feet that quickly. If it is true the crew that survived attempted to put the fire out several times but it restarted that would indicate the immediate fire was survivable as these crew members were in close proximity. It would also indicate the fire was out or at least contained to some degree allowing others the opportunity to escape. You would think one person would be able to exit even if severely burned and died at a later date. But all reports indicate no one escaped the berthing area and the only survivors immediately abandoned ship. The story isn't consistent with the only survivors being those awake on the bridge.
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