[wang_li]

>It conceivably might even start another fire if the battery took some damage.

What you're saying is that all drones should be grounded if the fire risk is high.

[catalogia]

Maybe? I'm not sure. I don't know enough about the typical failure modes of a drone to say whether fire is a likely outcome. But I think the battery pack getting blasted by a shotgun stands a good chance of bringing out the worst failure modes.