A Model S in the US catches fire three weeks after the accident

According to foreign media reports, the Sacramento Fire Department put out the first Tesla fire they encountered last week.Firefighters extinguished the flames that engulfed a Tesla Model S that had been involved in a previous accident and then parked in a Sacramento scrap yard for three weeks.

"This is the first and only fire in a Tesla vehicle we've dealt with," the Sacramento Fire Department said. "The car was parked in a scrap yard for 3 weeks following an accident that did not involve a fire, and then There was a fire in the demolition yard. We dispatched firefighters and after more than an hour of operation, we made sure the vehicle was extinguished."

The fire department said the Model S fire started in the vehicle's battery compartment and was difficult to put out because the batteries in the compartment would reignite repeatedly.Workers from the fire department and a demolition company turned the Model S on its side, exposing the battery compartment, and found the source of the flames.

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However, the cells continued to reignite after firefighters sprayed water directly into the battery compartment.Firefighters then decided to completely submerge the vehicle's battery compartment in water.They dug a small hole, filled it with water, and placed the vehicle in it.The puddle successfully put out the fire.There were no casualties in the accident.

After a 2021 Tesla Model Y caught fire in Vancouver last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Tesla for information on the Model Y fire in Canada.

In its 2021 impact report, Tesla said its vehicles are 11 times less likely to catch fire than the U.S. average.Between 2012 and 2021, there will be about five Tesla vehicle fires for every billion miles driven, the report said.