An aerial view of the Tesla Fremont Manufacturing unit on April 24, 2024 in Fremont, California.Â
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A fireplace broke out at Tesla‘s car meeting plant in Fremont, California on Monday afternoon, in accordance with a press release from the Fremont Fireplace Division, posted on social network X.
No accidents had been reported amongst staff and fireplace fighters current on the scene, the division stated.
An undisclosed variety of fireplace fighters had responded to the fireplace, which broke out earlier than 5:00 p.m., on the Tesla facility at 45500 Fremont Boulevard. The incident was described as a two-alarm, industrial construction fireplace in a two-story constructing.
The fireplace apparently originated in an oven utilized in car manufacturing operations, the division stated, including that cause of the fire was “below investigation” as of Monday night.
The fireplace was “knocked down” in a matter of hours, the division stated, and the fire-fighting crew had been launched from the scene as of round 8 p.m.
The Fremont manufacturing facility is Tesla’s first mass EV manufacturing facility. It was first to provide the corporate’s common Mannequin 3 sedans, and Mannequin Y crossover utility autos, in addition to its higher-end Mannequin S sedan and Mannequin X, an SUV with falcon wing doorways.
On Might 17, 2024 Tesla celebrated a milestone for its Fremont manufacturing facility together with their battery manufacturing facility exterior of Reno, Nevada, saying they’d surpassed manufacturing of three million autos.
Monday’s fireplace adopted sweeping layoffs on the Elon Musk-led automaker. Tesla recently cut one other 601 jobs in California, together with 164 on the Fremont manufacturing facility.
Amongst jobs lower in Fremont on this newest wave of the layoffs had been two administrators of Environmental Well being and Security (EHS), and a myriad of others concerned in EHS, safety, tools upkeep and emergency companies, in accordance with filings by the corporate with the California Employment Growth Division.
Tesla’s Fremont manufacturing facility has a historical past of fires. For instance, a number of fireplace incidents occurred on the manufacturing facility from 2014 to 2018, together with a mixture of indoor and outside fires in 2018 alone, with extra nonetheless in 2019 and 2021.
Fires on the Fremont manufacturing facility prior to now have sometimes necessitated a pause in manufacturing.
Tesla didn’t reply to a request for additional info on Monday night.
Native environmental regulators, the Bay Space Air High quality Administration District (BAAMQD), not too long ago accused Tesla of permitting “unabated emissions” on the Fremont plant, and stated that poisonous air air pollution ought to have been prevented.
The BAAMQD is now in search of an abatement order that will power Tesla to implement modifications to its manufacturing facility operations to forestall additional air pollution.
On Monday evening, the BAAMQD instructed CNBC through e-mail that it was “conscious of the fireplace and assessing” the state of affairs in Alameda County.
