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California fire crews use SIX THOUSAND gallons of water to extinguish burning Tesla Model S whose battery spontaneously combusted while driving down busy freeway
FOR DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 29 January 2023 | VANESSA SERNA

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: automotive; batteries; california; ev; evfires; fire; fires; lithium; tesla
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1 posted on 01/30/2023 4:00:32 AM PST by dennisw
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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.


2 posted on 01/30/2023 4:02:40 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: dennisw

6000 gallons or 4500 gallons?


3 posted on 01/30/2023 4:02:46 AM PST by sonova (That's what I always say sometimes.)
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To: sonova

Two different Tesla fires


4 posted on 01/30/2023 4:04:35 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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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.


5 posted on 01/30/2023 4:05:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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To: dennisw

Er...

https://theloadstar.com/lithium-battery-fires-require-different-firefighting-techniques-says-safety-oem/


6 posted on 01/30/2023 4:06:21 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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Safe and effective.


7 posted on 01/30/2023 4:06:40 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Why bother even trying to put it out? Just keep it from spreading like they do some buildings.


8 posted on 01/30/2023 4:12:12 AM PST by oldasrocks (quew)
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they dug a pit and pushed the tesla into it..... OMG, you can’t make this stuff up!


9 posted on 01/30/2023 4:14:58 AM PST by Ikeon (You only live once is a lie, you live forever, where you spend eternity is your choice. )
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How much damage to the environment did it caused!
Surely a lot of global heat!


10 posted on 01/30/2023 4:17:59 AM PST by AZJeep
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OK


11 posted on 01/30/2023 4:22:05 AM PST by sonova (That's what I always say sometimes.)
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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.


12 posted on 01/30/2023 4:24:49 AM PST by dangus
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Looks like they have finally found the secret to Greek Fire.


13 posted on 01/30/2023 4:41:42 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: dangus

Do ICE cars burst into flames without a collision? Do you have the pics?


14 posted on 01/30/2023 5:00:12 AM PST by devere
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To: dennisw

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


15 posted on 01/30/2023 5:04:50 AM PST by artichokegrower
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“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.


16 posted on 01/30/2023 5:10:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: sonova

Metric gallons........................


17 posted on 01/30/2023 5:11:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Openurmind
Looks like they have finally found the secret to Greek Fire.

Geek Fire?


18 posted on 01/30/2023 5:11:15 AM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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(rimshot) Good One!


19 posted on 01/30/2023 5:19:38 AM PST by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: dennisw

The future is here.


20 posted on 01/30/2023 5:19:50 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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