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A two-alarm commercial fire broke out Monday night at Tesla’s Fremont factory, which has seen several fires over the past decade.
A press release from the Fremont Fire Department said the fire “started inside an oven” and was extinguished “within an hour of firefighters arriving on scene.”
The fire department said there were no reports of injuries from public safety personnel or Tesla employees.
In a statement to Business Insider, the Fremont Fire Department said it could not share additional information about how the fire started or what type of oven it came from. The fire department is investigating the cause.
There have been multiple fires at the Fremont plant over the years. In 2021, a fire caused by “melted aluminum and hydraulic oil” occurred in a press machine for automobile manufacturing. FFD worked with Tesla’s fire response team to help bring the fire under control, Business Insider previously reported.
In 2019, FFD quickly extinguished fires in hazardous waste areas. No injuries were reported.
In 2018, CNBC reported that there were four fires in four years at Tesla’s paint shop.
The Fremont plant has also been embroiled in other bitter controversies.
Black workers at the plant said racial abuse and discrimination were rampant at the plant and CEO Elon Musk failed to intervene. According to Reuters, the company is currently facing a class action lawsuit from 6,000 black employees, including 6,000 who worked at the Fremont plant. facility.
And in May, California regulators accused the factory of emitting large amounts of illegal air pollutants, CBS reported. The plant previously spent more than $750,000 to resolve dozens of air quality violations at the plant.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is seeking an abatement order forcing Tesla to reduce air pollution. CNBC reports that Tesla is also facing a lawsuit from the Environmental Democracy Project for air quality violations.
Representatives for Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.