Firefighters troll Elon Musk after another Tesla bursts into flames

Firefighters in California referred to as out Elon Musk on his personal social messaging web site after a Tesla spontaneously burst into flames in the course of a luxury-car salvage yard.

Metro Fireplace of Sacramento posted photos and video on X, Musk’s new identify for Twitter, displaying crews hosing down the scorched stays of one in every of his different firm’s electrical vehicles in Rancho Cordova final Wednesday.

The Tesla was salvaged from flooding in Florida and had been sitting within the auto yard for a number of months, ready to be dismantled for components, when it  “spontaneously caught hearth,” based on the fireplace division.

Crews have been unable to maneuver it to a secure location to “burn out,” so the Tesla was left the place it was, “surrounded by hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in salvaged autos together with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bentleys,” the fireplace division tweeted.

Fireplace officers pointedly tagged Musk, who owns each Tesla and X.

The 52-year-old billionaire businessman has not responded to the company’s trolling.

A number of commenters jumped on the chance to poke enjoyable at Musk’s automaker, with one remarking sarcastically: “One other Tesla success story.”

Others, nonetheless, rushed to Musk’s protection and blasted the fireplace division for tagging the CEO.  

“Why tag @elonmusk when none of your different automobile hearth posts tag the CEO of the automobile producer?” one X consumer questioned.

This was not the primary time that Sacramento firefighters needed to cope with a fire-ravaged Tesla.

In January, town’s hearth crews needed to use 6,000 gallons of water to extinguish the lithium-ion battery of a Tesla Mannequin S that burst into flames whereas touring on Freeway 50 in Rancho Cordova.

Two hearth engines, a water tender and a ladder truck have been referred to as to help.

In June 2022, one other Tesla Mannequin S caught hearth in a junkyard in Rancho Cordova.

After a number of failed makes an attempt to place out the inferno, crews needed to dig a pit, fill it with 4,500 gallons of water and submerge the burning electrical automobile in it.