(I didn’t know/heard about it on safety meetings that the firefighters differentiate between them, but that makes sense. “Electrical fire” in the firefighter sense, which includes gasoline burning on some wires that carry current.)

Big battery safety is a very new thing tho, a bit like ice vehicles stopped being rolling fireballs after a few decades, I’m sure batteries will integrate fire safety features (ducts, chemicals, switches, or just different types of materials used to store charge).