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Green Inferno: Tesla Big Rig Battery Blaze Shuts Down California Highway for 12 Hours

A Tesla semi-truck’s battery pack caught fire on California’s Interstate 80 near Emigrant Gap in the Sierra Nevada mountains this week, prompting a hazardous materials response and causing a full closure of the freeway for more than half a day. California firefighters resorted to airdropping fire retardant on the Tesla truck, a technique normally reserved for forest fires.

Tesla Semi-Truck on Fire