it took firefighters four hours and more than 30,000 gallons of water to extinguish a battery fire in a 2019 Tesla Model S Saturday, something he said responders would normally have controlled in a matter of “minutes” while crews had to call Tesla for advice. not peculiar
for an electric vehicle battery—which is often a large-scale version of the lithium-ion batteries found in mobile phones—to catch fire again after being put out and serves to underscore how unprepared many responders are to deal with electric vehicle fires. Batteries burn very differently to gasoline and can actually be expected to reignite after being put out due to the fact they still have stored energy,