Firefighters responded to a “working hearth” on the Tesla plant in Fremont, California on Thursday afternoon, in response to a press release from the Fremont Fire Department. 

No personnel or firefighters had been injured, the fireplace division stated.

The hearth reportedly occurred in an space of the Tesla facility that’s underneath building. That is Tesla’s main U.S. automobile meeting plant. The corporate is at the moment constructing a second one in Austin, Texas.

Elon Musk‘s electrical automotive firm makes its Mannequin 3 sedan, Mannequin Y crossover SUV, and higher-end Mannequin S and X electrical autos in Fremont.

The Fremont plant lately shut down for at least two days because of components shortages, in response to Musk.

The manufacturing unit has a historical past of expensive fires, together with multiple fires at its paint shop, as CNBC has beforehand reported.

Based on Tesla’s fourth quarter filing with the SEC, Tesla has acquired “notices of violation” from the Bay Space Air High quality Administration District referring to air allowing and compliance for the Fremont manufacturing unit, too.

“The EPA is reviewing the compliance of our Fremont Manufacturing facility operations with relevant necessities underneath the Clear Air Act, and we’re working with the EPA in responding its requests for info,” Tesla stated within the submitting.

Based on the Fremont hearth division, “The deep-seated hearth was contained to a automobile manufacturing stamping machine.” Metropolis firefighters coordinated with Tesla’s inner brigade, the Tesla Fireplace Response Group, to include the fireplace inside just a few hours.

Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

As of Thursday night, the fireplace on the Fremont manufacturing unit was underneath management with hearth engines and a truck remaining on the scene to observe the state of affairs. The reason for the fireplace was decided to be “molten aluminum and hydraulic fluid.”