A "two-alarm commercial fire" broke out on May 20th at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, USA.

The Fremont Fire Department said that the fire began "inside an oven," though the type of oven involved wasn't immediately clear.

Firefighters said the flames were put out within a couple of hours, and that there were no reports of injuries. The cause is still under investigation.

Tesla Fremont, which began its life in 1962 as Tesla’s first mass EV manufacturing facility, was the first to produce the company’s popular Model 3 sedans and Model Y crossover utility vehicles, as well as its higher-end Model S sedan and Model X SUV with falcon wing doors.

On May 17, 2024 Tesla celebrated a milestone for its Fremont factory in conjunction with their battery factory outside of Reno, Nevada, saying they had surpassed production of 3 million vehicles.

Monday’s fire followed sweeping layoffs at the Elon Musk-led automaker. Tesla recently cut another 601 jobs in California, including 164 at the Fremont factory.

Among jobs cut in Fremont in this latest wave of the layoffs were two directors of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), and a myriad of others involved in EHS, security, equipment maintenance and emergency services, according to filings by the company with the California Employment Development Division.

Tesla’s Fremont factory has a history of fires. For example, several fire incidents occurred at the factory from 2014 to 2018, including a mix of indoor and outdoor fires in 2018 alone, with more still in 2019 and 2021.

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