A Sacramento hearth crew blasted a Tesla Mannequin S with 6,000 gallons (22,700 liters) of water to extinguish a fireplace after the EV caught alight on a freeway.

Town’s Metro Hearth Division mentioned the automotive’s proprietor had seen nothing uncommon within the automotive’s conduct or efficiency previous to the fireplace beginning on Freeway 50 at 4.p.m. on January 29.

Luckily nobody was damage within the accident, however hearth crews had a significant job on their arms getting the fireplace within the battery compartment below management. The California Freeway Patrol (CHP) wad compelled to shut two lanes of the street, however recorded in its log 19 minutes after the incident began that placing the flames out was proving difficult. “Hearth is just not going out/going to attempt to flood (car),” CHP reported, based on The Sacramento Bee.

Two hearth vehicles, a water tender and a ladder truck attended the scene, and firemen finally extinguished the fireplace by utilizing jacks to carry the automotive and entry the battery pack from beneath.

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“The car battery compartment spontaneously caught hearth whereas it was touring freeway speeds on EB Hwy 50,” the fireplace division tweeted. “The fireplace was extinguished with approx 6,000 gallons of water, because the battery cells continued to combust. Fortunately no accidents had been reported.”

A mean hearth in a gasoline-powered automotive can take 500-1,000 gallons (1,890-3,785 liters) to place out based on feedback made by an Austin, Texas, hearth chief to The Impartial, and Metro Hearth of Sacramento defined in a reply to a different tweet that 6,000 gallons is greater than it normally must extinguish a home hearth.

Although electrical vehicles are much less more likely to catch hearth than conventional combustion-powered automobiles, this isn’t the primary time we’ve heard a few Tesla catching alight and needing hundreds of gallons of water to place out the fireplace. In November final 12 months we wrote about one other Mannequin S that caught hearth in Pennsylvania, although in that case the fireplace began after the automotive hit a chunk of particles within the street.