A fleet of autos rented by President Joe Biden’s Secret Service element throughout his Nantucket journey for Thanksgiving had been destroyed by hearth a day after he left.

The autos had been rented by the Biden celebration, consisting of a Chevrolet Suburban, Ford Explorer, Infiniti QX80, a Ford Expedition, and a Jeep Gladiator. They caught hearth in a parking lot at Nantucket Memorial Airport and whereas nobody was injured within the blaze, the hearth is being investigated by the authorities.

Footage taken on the scene and shared to social media exhibits that the entrance fascia of all 5 automobiles had been severely broken however that the blaze was extinguished earlier than it utterly engulfed all 5 autos.

A big automobile hearth involving a number of rental autos at Nantucket Memorial Airport is now out. There have been no accidents reported however a minimum of 4 automobiles sustained vital injury. #nantucket pic.twitter.com/VF7Zh7qoot

— Nantucket Present (@ACKCurrent) November 28, 2022

“At roughly 5:22 am, Airport shift employees noticed an lively hearth within the rental automobile overflow space by way of the Airport’s Closed-Circuit Tv System,” Nantucket Airport stated on Twitter. “Workers activated the Alert system and responded to the hearth in Airport-3, the place they had been met by responding items from Nantucket Fireplace Division and Nantucket Police Division. Mixed hearth assets responded and contained the hearth. A number of autos had been broken.”

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The Nantucket Present says that the flames unfold to inside 40 ft (12 m) of the airport’s 25,000-gallon jet gasoline tanks. All 5 autos are owned by Hertz with a report stating that the Ford Expedition was concerned in a battery recall however had not had its battery swapped out on the time of the hearth.

President Joe Biden had been in Nantucket along with his household to have a good time Thanksgiving and visited the Nantucket Police Division throughout his journey.

These are the rental autos that had been going through one another and had their entrance ends totaled by the hearth. 5 are being towed away:

• Chevy Suburban
• Ford Explorer
• Infiniti QX80
• Ford Expedition
• Jeep Gladiator pic.twitter.com/NWnuFs8ivj

— Nantucket Present (@ACKCurrent) November 28, 2022

The automobiles had been owned by Hertz, and had simply been returned by members of the Secret Service who had been utilizing them throughout President Biden’s go to, sources stated.

The Ford Expedition was beneath a battery recall by the producer and had not too long ago had the battery switched out. pic.twitter.com/CQzI5w0k2U

— Nantucket Present (@ACKCurrent) November 28, 2022