Firefighters Use 6,000 Gallons of Water to Extinguish It
Firefighters in Sacramento, California, were forced to use 6,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Telsa Model S that “spontaneously caught fire.” First responders found the electric vehicle produced by Elon Musk “engulfed in flames’ on a highway. Luckily, no one was injured in the green inferno.
CBS News reports that firefighters from the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District were called to a Tesla Model S that “spontaneously caught fire while it was traveling freeway speeds on EB Hwy 50,” a highway in Rancho Cordova, California, on Saturday afternoon. According to the fire department, the vehicle’s battery compartment caught fire while it was moving at highway speeds on Highway 50 eastbound.
Photos and video of the incident demonstrate the extent of the fire’s damage. It took two fire engines, a water tender, and a ladder truck to extinguish the fires that had completely consumed the vehicle’s front hood. Firefighters had to access the car’s underside with jacks in order to put out the battery fire, with batteries continuing to burn even after the primary fire was extinguished.