Plumes of smoke rise into the sky from a fire at the Tesla Gigafactory site Photo: picture alliance/dpa
By Michael Sauerbier
Tesla has caught fire again! 50 firefighters had to go out to extinguish the fire on Monday morning. The job at the car factory lasts more than four hours!
At 3:30 a.m., the company fire brigade had sounded the alarm at nearby police stations: 800 cubic meters of compressed wood and paper waste were on fire, and acrid smoke was in the air.
The fire in a recycling plant on the premises of the car factory was only extinguished at 7.45 a.m.
On Monday morning, a pile of cardboard burst into flames on the factory premises Photo: picture alliance/dpa
The water band WSE called for “quick, bold measures to prevent pollutants from entering the groundwater”. It was unprotected at the fire site.
But according to the district fire chief, the plant is surrounded by a concrete ring. The extinguishing water had been sucked out.
Tesla has had fire problems several times: According to the “Märkische Oderzeitung”, containers for hot aluminum slag caught fire three or four times.
The “Blaulicht Aachen” portal reported that the chief of the company fire brigade had been fired. Because he didn’t want to reveal who took photos of one of the fires…