Sacramento Metro Fire put out its first Tesla fire last week. Firefighters extinguished the flames engulfing a Tesla Model S that had been sitting in the Sacramento smashing yard for three weeks after the accident.
“It was the first and only one. The vehicle was parked in the accident yard for 3 weeks after the accident (no fire) and then caught fire in the yard. Our crews were sent and ensured that the vehicle was extinguished after more than an hour of firefighting, “said Sacramento’s Metro Fire.
According to Metro Fire, the fire of the Tesla Model S started in the car’s battery compartment. Firefighters had difficulty putting out the flames because the cells in the battery compartment would ignite again. Metro Fire and workers from the year of the demolition turned the Model S aside to reveal the battery compartment and get to the root of the flames.
Crews arrived at our first Tesla fire. He was involved in an accident 3 weeks ago and was parked in a destructive yard. The crews put out the fire, but it continued to ignite / release gas in the battery compartment. The crews created a pit, put the car inside and filled the pit with water pic.twitter.com/Lz5b5770lO
– Sacramento Metro Fire (@metrofirepio) June 12, 2022
However, the battery cells continued to re-ignite even after firefighters sprayed water directly on the battery compartment. Then firefighters decided to completely immerse the battery compartment of the S model in water. They dug a small pit, filled it with water, and then put the Tesla inside. The water pit successfully extinguished the fire.
No casualties were reported during the Tesla Model S fire.
The 2021 Tesla Model Y was engulfed in flames in Vancouver last month. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Tesla and asked for information about the Y model accident in Canada.
In its 2021 impact report, Tesla said that fire accidents for its vehicles were ~ 11 times lower than the average vehicle in the United States. The report says that approximately five Tesla vehicle fires occurred in every billion miles traveled between 2012 and 2021.
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Tesla caught fire in the destructive yard in Sacramento three weeks after the accident
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