Days after a Bronx apartment building caught fire, Antwon Carter says he’s trying to rebuild.

“I’ve just been running around with the Red Cross, doing a lot of paperwork. I guess they’re trying to find me housing somewhere," said Carter, who is among 10 people who were displaced when a lithium-ion battery caught fire Thursday night. 

Fire officials say 34-year-old Michael Banks was killed in the blaze.

“It’s a tragic thing, because it’s somebody that you know. I don’t even know what to say about it. I’m just thankful to be here," Carter said.

FDNY officials say the battery was charging inside while the bike sat outside. Banks is the fifth New Yorker to die in a fire caused by a lithium-ion battery so far this year.

“We’ve got a lot to learn still. These are very deadly fires, although deaths are down. I won’t be satisfied until there are zero deaths," FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said.

On Tuesday, top fire officials held a symposium at the FDNY Fire Academy on Randall’s Island to address the threat lithium-ion batteries pose to the public. 

“I think a lot of jurisdictions don’t realize that they have this problem. We need to let them know how we’re capturing that data, how we’re collecting that data, what data points are important to us," Chief Fire Marshall Dan Flynn said.

During the two-day conference, members of the FDNY worked with national and federal partners to study how these fires start and look at best methods to contain them, and city officials asked federal authorities to push pending national legislation aimed at tracking and stopping the flow of uncertified batteries.

"What we're doing here today is to really bring the community together, not only from New York but across the United States, to talk about this challenge, talk about where we have research and science questions so that we can prioritize that and think about how can we give firefighters better tools to fight these fires," said Julie Brewer, who works for the Department of Homeland Security.

For more than a year, the City Council has been passing laws aimed at addressing the threats of lithium-ion batteries. Last month, two laws went into effect. Officials can now shut down retailers who repeatedly violate the ban on uncertified batteries.

Meanwhile, Carter says he’s glad that the city is taking these fires seriously, because they can happen to anyone at any time.

“They gotta monitor what people are doing with these batteries to prevent things like this from happening, because more people are gonna live without a home," Carter said.

According to the FDNY, there were 227 lithium-ion battery-related fires so far this year. But there have been nine fewer deaths, and about 30 fewer injuries than this time last year.