Posted on 01/30/2023 4:00:32 AM PST by dennisw
Tesla caught on fire while the driver was on Highway 50 in Rancho Cordova Fire officials said that nothing was wrong with the car before it combusted
Firefighters used 6,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Tesla Model S that spontaneously burst into flames on a busy highway outside of Sacramento on Saturday.
The driver, who was not injured, was on Highway 50 in Rancho Cordova at around 3pm when smoke started to come out from the front of the car.
Photos of the luxury car showed the vehicle completely totaled with the front end of completely burnt.
Officials responded to the scene with two fire engines and a water tender. The Metro Fire of Sacramento crew said that nothing was previously wrong with car.
The horrific blaze wasn't the first Tesla S fire that Metro Fire of Sacramento officials had to extinguish.
A white Tesla model burst into flames in a Rancho Cordova wrecking yard in June after the car had spent weeks sitting there after a collision.
Firefighters arrived at the wrecking yard to find the Tesla fully engulfed in flames. Each time the firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames, the Tesla's battery would reignite the fire.
The fire department posted an Instagram video of the ordeal, saying that even when firefighters moved the Tesla onto its side to spray the battery directly, the car would burst into flames again 'due to the residual heat.'
Eventually, the firefighters dug a pit near the Tesla and moved the burning car into it and then filled the pit with water, 'effectively submerging the battery compartment.'
The technique worked, and the fire department was able to put out the fire with no injuries and 4,500 gallons of water used - about the same amount of water used for a building fire.
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Too bad this Tesla was not being driven in Florida. The driver could drive straight into a canal to quench the lithium fire.
Well, another Tesla goes up in smoke.
6000 gallons or 4500 gallons?
Two different Tesla fires
I was going to make a joke about taking the car to a swimming pool and tossing it in. But I see that this is pretty much what they ended up doing. Unbelievable.
Safe and effective.
Why bother even trying to put it out? Just keep it from spreading like they do some buildings.
they dug a pit and pushed the tesla into it..... OMG, you can’t make this stuff up!
How much damage to the environment did it caused!
Surely a lot of global heat!
OK
Can you imagine if Freepers posted every time a gas-powered car burst into flames? You’d have to scroll through page after page to find a story about Trump or Biden! 39,000 deaths in gas-powered cars! (I’m going to infer the guy in the Tesla didn’t even die, since there is no mention of it.)
The lesson here isn’t that people shouldn’t drive Teslas; it’s that highway departments should have a few trucks with foam.
Looks like they have finally found the secret to Greek Fire.
Do ICE cars burst into flames without a collision? Do you have the pics?
California is banning diesel trucks. All of the big rig semis will be electric. Will be interesting when one bursts into flames on the Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Bridge or in the Caldecott Tunnel
“Do ICE cars burst into flames without a collision?”
Yes but the ratio of incidents given ICE cars outnumber EVs by an astronomical number isn’t even close.
Not reported much but during the last hurricane EVs were swamped in salt water and many subsequently burst into flames......apparently Teslas dont like sea water and Elons engineering and R&D folks missed that little problem.
Metric gallons........................
Geek Fire?
(rimshot) Good One!
The future is here.
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