Posted on 06/22/2022 10:19:49 AM PDT by DFG
A white Tesla Model S spontaneously burst into flames in a Rancho Cordova, California wrecking yard after the car had spent weeks sitting there after a collision.
The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said that 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 it's 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.
Fires generated from electric vehicles can be especially hazardous, as they generate over 100 organic chemicals including some potentially fatal toxic gasses like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide.
Capt. Parker Wilbourn, a spokesperson for the fire department, told the Washington Post that the Tesla fire burned hotter than 3,000 degrees.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Fire departments have to be specially trained in the use of the Jaws-of-Life on an Electric automobile, else they could be electrocuted................
I believe she dumped it for UNION MADE electric car.
Spot on!
I am thinking we need lithium tipped matches for extreme camping. Strike a match and it burns all week even in the rain. Just leave it in a glass ashtray or something all week, and you never have to use more than one match.
It would be a good match in a SHTF survival mode.
Why didn’t they use foam?
WTM... (White Tesla’s Matter)
Assuming, from the article title, that black, red, and gray Tesla’s would not have this problem...
“What kind of IDIOT junkyard owner would allow an electric car on his lot.”
Smarter than the ones who park them in their attached garage at home.
And soon they could be going the way off he DoDo unless you buy one made in China since they control 80% or more of the materials
So much for CornPops transition
What kind of IDIOT junkyard owner would allow an electric car on his lot.
= = =
He gets storage fees on it.
We were taught that with city buses (electric/propane/etc) that had high-voltage batteries, we DO NOT USE WATER!!!!!
Along with highway pull offs for slower cars they should dig pits in which to push flaming electric cars.
An EV pit stop
Just think about all those chemicals that now leached into the ground water. Where is the DEC? The junkyard needs to be declared a cleanup site.
Oversized golf kart fanbois not amused.
Oh the horror! Carbon Monoxide, as if you can't get that by just running a car engine and venting the exhaust into a garage. Might as well ban gasoline powered cars! And home fires generate same toxic gasses due to chemicals and products within the home (all those cleaning products everyone has at home can be a problem).
Be interesting to see how many parking garages refuse to allow EV’s. And when the insurance companies start getting bills in the multiples of millions of dollars from the after effects of combusting EV’s. Just imagine one these pieces of sh!t going up in a parking garage under a downtown hotel.
So what schmuck didn’t disconnect the battery upon dropping it in his yard?
Do you unload your firearm when you set in on the workbench?
What I learned from this article:
The Rancho Cordova, California fire department is woefully lacking common training for lithium vehicle battery fires.
It’s well known that it’s a waste of time (and hazardous) to spray water on an EV.
EV owners should be reviewing their HO policies/renewals for exclusions pertaining to fire risk.
I would not be surprised to find that the insurance companies have begun excluding coverage for fires started by EVs, charging equipment and/or Li battery power banks.
I think Rancho Cordova FD ought to register:
https://www.firefighternation.com/leadership/extinguishing-electric-vehicle-battery-fires/
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