{"id":127206,"date":"2018-06-18T12:39:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=127206"},"modified":"2018-06-18T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:50:35","slug":"ntsb-investigating-latest-tesla-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/06\/ntsb-investigating-latest-tesla-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSB Investigating Latest Tesla Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127209\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Tesla-McCormack-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127209\" title=\"Tesla McCormack fire\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Tesla-McCormack-fire-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Tesla Model S caught on fire &quot;out of the blue.&quot; The NTSB is investigating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a Tesla Model S fire that occurred in West Hollywood, California, last week.<\/p>\n<p>While Tesla vehicles have been in the news lately for a series of fires for the Model S and Model X vehicles, this time the fire was a bit unusual: it was spontaneous. Previous vehicles caught on fire after being involved in an accident.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43254\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/subscribe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43254\" title=\"Subscribe 1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-31.jpg 152w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-31-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We Keep You In the Know!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Model S is owned by film director Michael Morris and his wife, actress Mary McCormack, managed to film the vehicle going up in flames, and tweeted it to Tesla.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201c@Tesla. This is what happened to my husband and his car today. No accident, out of the blue, in traffic on Santa Monica Blvd. Thank you to the kind couple who flagged him down and told him to pull over. And thank god my three little girls weren\u2019t in the car with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(Tesla slashing up to 9% of its workforce. <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2018\/06\/tesla-slashing-up-to-9-of-workforce\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries related to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla officials, which are usually quick to defend their vehicles took a different tack this time, calling the incident \u201can extraordinarily unusual occurrence\u201d and said it\u2019s also investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(Despite concerns, safety probes, Musk promises \u201cfull self-driving\u201d Autopilot by August.\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2018\/06\/despite-concerns-safety-probes-musk-promise-full-self-driving-autopilot-to-debut-in-august\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0for more.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NTSB said the event and subsequent investigation will provide them an opportunity to learn more about fires and electric vehicles. Tesla vehicles have been involved in at least three fires in the last four months; however, each was involved in some type of collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Tesla caught on fire recently, but this time there was a marked difference in the event: it was spontaneous. The vehicle, owned by Hollywood director Michael Morris, caught on fire &#8220;out of the blue,&#8221; according to his wife, actress Mary McCormack, who filmed the event. The NTSB is investigating and Tesla called it an &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; event. Details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":127209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[110],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,151,301,319,155,163,132,125,137,291,207,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127206"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=127206"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=127206"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=127206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}