After Hurricane Helene caused the parking lot to flood, a Tesla vehicle caught fire inside a garage in Pinellas County, Florida, in an unexpected incident. The storm caused saltwater to overflow the garage where the incident occurred.
Pinellas County alerted the county’s citizens to the startling video on the microblogging site X (formerly known as Twitter) and cautioned them that electric cars submerged in saltwater may catch fire.
Officers in Pinellas County requested that people notify them via social media if they had evacuated and had left a golf cart or electric car in their garage or behind a structure and were unable to retrieve or relocate it.
The cops gave the county residents a helpline number and explained that while they are still clearing the roads, they are not yet allowing citizens to visit the barrier islands.
“Please contact our county information centre at 727 464-4333 and give them your address so we can share it with the local fire departments,” Pinellas County officers said.
It was urged by Pinellas County that owners of EVs or E-bikes should not store, operate, or charge them in their garages or homes. They went on to say that the electric car needed to be hauled to a dealership for an inspection and moved 50 feet away from anything that could catch fire.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Helene’s devastation and devastating flooding in six states have left at least 116 people dead, according to US authorities. According to the BBC on Monday, the officials added that as they scramble to carry out rescue and recovery operations, the death toll is probably going to go up.
According to the research, Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic flooding in one county in North Carolina, which resulted in at least 30 deaths and numerous missing persons.
“We have biblical devastation,” BBC quoted Ryan Cole, an emergency official in a county in Asheville said. “This is the most significant natural disaster that any one of us has ever seen,” he added.
Late on Thursday, the Category 4 storm made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida, bringing with it widespread destruction and wind up to 140 mph.
