[Responsibility2nd]

Granted I’m not an electrical engineer, but even I know better to use water on an electrical fire.

What were these fire fighters thinking?

[dragnet2]

I don’t know if they didn’t hit it with foam. Only so much foam can be carried by these fire vehicles. Maybe they exhausted all their foam and then just kept water on it. I dunno.

[SaxxonWoods]

They probably had nothing else, there aren’t enough EVs on the streets yet for fire departments to be spending money on foam and foam dispensers.

[Mr. Lucky]

What they were thinking was that they didn’t want the whole neighborhood to go up in flames. The water would have been used to keep adjacent flammable structures from igniting.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m guessing that firefighters who arrive on the scene and find a car fully engulfed in flames can’t automatically tell that it’s a Tesla.

[samiam5]

When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

[UB355]

I assume they were using foam with the water, just no way to get the foam in the battery compartments

[ConservativeMind]

Actually, when encountering idiots willing to let their dangerous side kill others, consider things that enhance their burn as much as possible.

[VTenigma]

How about water on a Lithium fire. Not a great idea.