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A crash and subsequent fire of a Tesla Model S this
past weekend quickly caught attention online for its "four-hour"
blaze, but that's not exactly what happened, the fire chief told Car
and Driver today.
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The
initial fireball was contained in a matter of minutes, and it was just tiny
flareups that were a longer-lasting problem, chief Palmer Buck explained to
the Houston Chronicle and C/D.
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Although
the chief acknowledges EV fires require different tactics by firefighters,
Tesla and government safety data asserts that traditional internal-combustion
vehicles experience one fire for every 19 million miles traveled; for Teslas
EVs, it's one fire for 205 million miles traveled.
It didn’t take long
for reports to spread online that a Tesla Model S crash in a gated subdivision
in The Woodlands, near Houston, Texas, this past weekend outwitted firefighters
for four hours. The reality, according to the local fire chief, turned out to
be much less exciting (though still tragic for those involved, including two
people inside the car who died). There's a lesson here about how continuous
advancements in the auto industry force first responders into an endless arms
race for information.
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