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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Firefighters shoot 6,000 gallons of water at ‘spontaneously’ burning Tesla on California highway

Metro Fire of Sacramento

A Tesla Model S battery “spontaneously caught fire” inside the vehicle as it was driving on a highway in Rancho Cordova, California, where firefighters used 6,000 gallons of water to combat the blaze.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District firefighters arrived at the scene on 28 January to find the car “engulfed in flames” due to a fire inside its battery compartment, according to the agency’s posts on Twitter.

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