A fire broke out in teslaMonday afternoon at an automobile assembly plant in Fremont, Calif., according to a statement from the Fremont Fire Department. social network x.
According to the department, there were no injuries to employees or firefighters at the scene.
An undisclosed number of firefighters responded to the fire at the Tesla facility in the 45500 block of Fremont Boulevard just before 5 p.m. The incident was described as a two-alarm commercial fire in a two-story building.
Officials said the fire apparently started in an oven used in the car manufacturing process. Cause of the fire As of Monday night, it remained “under investigation.”
The fire was “extinguished” within a few hours, the department said, and firefighters were released from the scene around 8 p.m.
The Fremont factory is Tesla’s first mass-production EV manufacturing facility. The company first produced the company’s popular Model 3 sedan, the Model Y crossover utility vehicle, as well as the high-end Model S sedan and his SUV, the Model X, with falcon wing doors.
On May 17, 2024, Tesla milestone The company announced joint construction of its Fremont plant and battery plant outside Reno, Nevada, and announced that vehicle production has exceeded 3 million vehicles.
Monday’s fire came on the heels of major job cuts at the Elon Musk-led automaker, which recently cut another 601 jobs in California, including 164 at its Fremont factory.
Among the positions eliminated in the round of layoffs at Fremont are two directors of environmental health and safety (EHS) and two directors of EHS, security and facilities, according to documents filed by the company with the California Employment Development Department. Includes a large number of personnel involved in maintenance and emergency services.
Tesla’s Fremont factory has a history of fires. For example, there were several fire incidents in factories from 2014 to 2018, a mix of indoor and outdoor fires in 2018 alone, and more fires in 2019 and 2021.
In the past, there have been fires at the Fremont plant that required production to be temporarily halted.
Tesla did not respond to requests for further information Monday night.
Local environmental regulator Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAMQD) recently accused Tesla of allowing “unabated emissions” at its Fremont factory and said toxic air pollution must be prevented. He said it was.
BAAMQD is currently mitigation order That would force Tesla to make changes to its factory operations to prevent further pollution.
BAAMQD told CNBC in an email Monday night that it is “aware of the fire and is assessing the situation” in Alameda County.